It looks like humanoid robots have a long way to go before catching up with human runners. Beijing’s E-Town tech hub hosted what it described as the world’s first humanoid half-marathon on ...

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.

The winning robot finished the race in two hours and 40 minutes Michael Nied has been a digital news editor with PEOPLE since 2025. He has previously been published by Just Jared, PopCrush ...

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Robot winner is Tiangong Ultra from Beijing robotics centre Time at 2 hours 40 minutes more than twice men's race winner BEIJING, April 19 (Reuters) - Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands ...

Though most robots broke down early on, six managed to finish the race. Breaking News Intern Robots and humans alike competed in a half-marathon in Beijing on Saturday, where 21 robots ran ...

What just happened? It appears that one thing humanoid robots still can't do better than their human counterparts is long-distance running. This fact was illustrated during a half-marathon in ...

BEIJING: Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands of runners at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing on Saturday (Apr 19), the first time these machines have raced alongside humans over a ...

If the idea of robots taking on humans in a road race conjures dystopian images of android athletic supremacy, then fear not, for now at least. More than 20 two-legged robots competed in the world ...

Two globetrotting German teenagers had their travel plans upended when they were denied entry to the U.S. and detained by border officers who called their trip “suspicious,” according to a report.