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.

BEIJING -Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands of runners at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing on April 19, the first time these machines have raced alongside humans over a 21km course.

The centre is 43% owned by two state-owned enterprises, while tech giant Xiaomi’s robotics arm and leading Chinese humanoid robot firm UBTech have equal share in the rest. Tang Jian ...

Some robots barely made it past the starting line — for example, Shennong tripped a human support runner, then slammed into a fence and shattered. At one point, Little Giant (the shortest ...

A post about a mysterious "giant block of ice" that reportedly fell from the sky in a residential neighborhood in Pennsylvania has gone viral on Reddit. Posted on April 14 by Matt Clark (u ...

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 ...

Step by mechanical step, dozens of humanoid robots took to the streets of Beijing on Saturday, joining thousands of their flesh-and-blood counterparts in a world-first half-marathon showcasing ...

BEIJING—Metal met asphalt in a half-marathon that featured thousands of human runners—and 21 Chinese humanoid robot models. Saturday’s road race involving human runners and a score of robots ...

(Photo: Reuters/Tingshu Wang) The centre is 43 per cent owned by two state-owned enterprises, while tech giant Xiaomi’s 1810.HK robotics arm and leading Chinese humanoid robot firm UBTech have ...

Robots and human participants ran on separate tracks. "Getting onto the race track might seem like a small step for humans, but it's a giant leap for humanoid robots," Liang Liang, Beijing E-Town ...

The centre is 43 percent owned by two state-owned enterprises, while tech giant Xiaomi’s robotics arm and leading Chinese humanoid robot firm UBTech have equal share in the rest. Tang Jian ...

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