In one small step for robot-kind — thousands of them, really — humanoid robots ran alongside actual humans in a half-marathon ...

It's 2025, and robots no longer just walk or obey commands ... commercial settings, and eventually, in people's homes." More than just a viral spectacle, the humanoid half-marathon appears ...

Cheerfully trilling Kenny G tunes to warn any people of their approach, robot carts haul aluminum ingots ... practically anywhere else. China has no independent labor unions, and Communist Party ...

He said: "I don't want to boast, but I think no other robotics firms in the West have matched Tiangong's sporting achievements. The winning robot's battery was changed just three times during the ...

As a precaution, a divider separated the parallel courses used by the robots and people. While flesh-and-blood participants followed conventional rules, the 20 teams fielding machines in the ...