A world half-marathon record was broken at a race in China this weekend. But the winner wasn't an Olympian or even a competitive racer. It was a bright red humanoid robot. Nickname? Lightning. The autonomous robot was competing in a robot versus human half-marathon race in Beijing,

A robotic arm built by Sony AI stood at one end of an Olympic-sized table tennis court inside the company’s headquarters, paddle in grip, and proceeded to beat elite human players in three out of five official matches.

A paddle-wielding robot is so adept at playing table tennis that it is posing a tough challenge to elite human players and sometimes defeating them, according to a new study that shows how advances in artificial intelligence are making robots more agile.

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

Globally, just 13,317 humanoid robots shipped last year. That’s not very many, but it’s forecast to almost double each year over the next decade. Global humanoid robot shipments will hit 2.6 million units 10 years from now in 2035, according to an ...

Robotics and automation have moved well beyond the trade‑show stage and into a real investment cycle. Companies across manufacturing, logistics, and fulfillment are deploying collaborative robots, machine‑vision systems,

Monday morning at Hannover Messe. A four-legged robot trots across a booth floor. Then a second one. Then a third. DEEP Robotics shipped all three here. Not prototypes. Real machines, built to sell. The fair runs through April 24.

Chinese startups are churning out more humanoid robots than their U.S. rivals, despite far lower valuations.