China's push into robotics hit a snag when a marathon robot tripped over a speed bump and broke apart in a spectacular ...

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

BEIJING — It was not even close as a bright red Chinese humanoid named “Lightning” lived up to its name in a half-marathon ...

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Although soft-bodied robots themselves can be fairly simple, low-cost devices, they typically require complex onboard electronics to control their locomotion. Such is not the case with a new bot, ...