Scientific American

A robot ran a half marathon faster than a human. Here’s why folding laundry is still harder

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

Humanoid robot hits barricade, gets back up, and beats human record by 7 minutes

China’s robot race just delivered a future-looking headline after a humanoid machine outran a historic human benchmark ...
WFMZ-TV

A humanoid robot sprints past the human half-marathon world record in Beijing race

Runners take pictures of a humanoid robot in the second Beijing E-Town Half Marathon and Humanoid Robot Half Marathon in Beijing Sunday, April 19, 2026. (Haruna Furuhashi/Pool Photo via AP) Runners ...
Forbes

Study: The Most Effective Robot Tutors Don’t Pretend To Be Human

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 25: U.S. first lady Melania Trump enters the East Room with a humanoid robot during the Fostering the Future Together Global Coalition Summit at the White House on March 25, ...
PBS

Humanoid robot wins Beijing half-marathon, defeating the human world record

BEIJING (AP) — A humanoid robot that won a half-marathon race for robots in Beijing on Sunday ran faster than the human world record in a show of China's technological leaps. The winner from Honor, a ...
EDN

Newest Japanese androids are the most human-looking yet

While Americans excel at producing deadly robots of militaristic persuasions, the Japanese are arguably the most competent designers of eerily human-like robots. Behold Kodomoroid and Otonaroid, two ...