A premapped course, a crew of handlers and a world-beating time: here’s what this Beijing half marathon reveals about how far ...

The winner of a half-marathon race for robots broke the fastest human record. The humanoid named Lightning finished the race ...

The era of us laughing at humanoids playing sport may now be behind us – for the most part – as a field of robots competing ...

Earlier this month, Beijing played host to the unusual spectacle of humanoid robots running a half-marathon. The robots ran alongside the 12,000 or so human runners who slogged their way around ...

They were trailing behind their human rivals a year ago. But on Sunday, an android outpaced the entire field to run a ...

The demonstration centers on a controlled track test in which the robot passes a speed-measurement device at peak velocity.

A world half-marathon record was broken at a race in China this weekend. But the winner wasn't an Olympian or even a ...

In Beijing, a humanoid robot named Lightning finished a half marathon in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, beating the human world ...

The android won a race featuring robots and humans on Sunday in Beijing, achieving a technological milestone while finishing ...

The record was originally held by Jacob Kiplimo of Uganda ...

The runner who beat a half-marathon faster than any human has didn’t need to eat bowls of pasta the night before or buy ...

A Chinese humanoid robot named Flash broke the half-marathon world record in Beijing on Sunday, April 19, coming in a whole ...