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Beijing hosted what’s being called the world’s first humanoid half-marathon—a footrace that pitted human runners against human-like robots. While technologically impressive, the outcome of the event ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a spectacle that combined elements of science fiction and athletics, China held its first-ever humanoid robot half-marathon over the weekend, pitting machines against more than 12,000 human ...

Robot Tiangong Ultra finished a half-marathon in 2 hours 40 minutes on Saturday in Beijing at the E-town Humanoid Robot Half Marathon. But it was no match for the fastest human finish of 1 hour, 11 ...

A Beijing half-marathon featured a road race between human runners and 21 robot models—it showed how far robots still are ...

Twenty-one humanoid robots competed alongside thousands of human runners in Beijing on Saturday in what organizers claim is the world's first bipedal robot half-marathon. Newsweek reached out to ...

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 ...