It will be highly specialized industrial robots that continue to improve safety, quality, performance, and even close the ...

BEIJING — It was not even close as a bright-red Chinese humanoid named “Lightning” lived up to its name in a half-marathon pitting humans against robots, smoking its competition on Sunday. Subscribe ...

A premapped course, a crew of handlers and a world-beating time: here’s what this Beijing half marathon reveals about how far humanoid robots have come—and how far they haven’t ...

At the end of a half-marathon, runners are usually wiped out. That part looked normal in Beijing. What didn't look so normal was who crossed the finish line first — a humanoid robot named Lightning.

A robot’s claw hurtles toward a light bulb on a table. I wince, waiting for the crunch. But suddenly the claw decelerates. It starts gingerly pawing around the table, as if searching for its glasses ...

For decades, engineers have sculpted robots much like our own physical form, creating machines with faces, limbs, and expressive eyes. While a task-oriented machine, a vacuum cleaner or a factory arm ...

Asia is spending billions on the development and deployment of humanoids that are already taking on humans' least desired ...

Tokyo is no stranger to themed cafes, and from the outside, Avatar Robot Café DAWN could easily be mistaken for another kitschy, ‘only-in-Japan’ experience. But once you step inside and sit down for a ...

Imagine a robot that could do your laundry, make your bed, cook your dinner, or stock the dairy section at your local grocery store. Humans have long been able to teach robots how to do individual ...

Image Credit: Ng Han Guan / AP News. A humanoid robot just outran the fastest human half-marathon time ever recorded, and it did it in Beijing on a Sunday morning like it was out for a casual jog. The ...