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Drivers of Change 2025: The drive
A 12,000km journey with the Mahindra XUV700 across India as Auto Today Special Projects Team share stories of extraordinary ...
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China’s humanoid robot sector enters mass production with Unitree, AgiBot among pack
China’s humanoid robot manufacturers are charging full steam ahead to mass production, which a new report said would boost the total value of automata made on the mainland this year to about 4.5 ...
TechCrunch5d
Robots run a half-marathon, slowly
It looks like humanoid robots have a long way to go before catching up with human runners. Beijing’s E-Town tech hub hosted what it described as the world’s first humanoid half-marathon on ...
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Humanoid robots join runners for half-marathon — but some of the droids struggled to find their footing
Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands of runners at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing on Saturday, the first time these machines have raced alongside humans over a 21-km (13-mile ...
Fox News6d
Can this $70,000 robot transform AI research?
And right out of the gate, they are offering the Reachy 2, a super-interesting humanoid robot designed as a "lab partner for the AI era." So, what makes Reachy 2 stand out? Well, first off ...
People3d
Robots Compete Against Humans in First-of-Its-Kind Half-Marathon Race in China — See Who Won!
The winning robot finished the race in two hours and 40 minutes Michael Nied has been a digital news editor with PEOPLE since 2025. He has previously been published by Just Jared, PopCrush ...
Business Insider4d
Humanoid robots tripped and fell and took down a handler during a half-marathon in Beijing
Humanoid robots ran a half-marathon against humans for the first time on Saturday in Beijing. The race highlighted how far humanoid robots have advanced, and how far they still have to go.
Wired5d
Stumbling and Overheating, Most Humanoid Robots Fail to Finish Half-Marathon in Beijing
About 12,000 human athletes ran in a half-marathon race in Beijing on Saturday, but most of the attention was on a group of other, more unconventional participants: 21 humanoid robots. The event ...
TechSpot3d
Humanoid robots struggle in first humans vs. robots half-marathon
What just happened? It appears that one thing humanoid robots still can't do better than their human counterparts is long-distance running. This fact was illustrated during a half-marathon in ...
CNN6d
Chinese robots ran against humans in the world’s first humanoid half-marathon. They lost by a mile
If the idea of robots taking on humans in a road race conjures dystopian images of android athletic supremacy, then fear not, for now at least. More than 20 two-legged robots competed in the world ...
Reuters6d
China pits humanoid robots against humans in half-marathon
Robot winner is Tiangong Ultra from Beijing robotics centre Time at 2 hours 40 minutes more than twice men's race winner BEIJING, April 19 (Reuters) - Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands ...