The effort quickly ran into trouble. The robots struggled to handle the soft, squishy and stretchy parts that are integral to shoemaking. Shoe fabrics also expand and contract depending on the ...

The Sky Project Ultra robot, also known as Tien Kung Ultra, from the Tien Kung Team, claimed victory among the nonhumans, crossing the finish line in 2 hours, 40 minutes and 42 seconds. The bipedal ...

It took place on Saturday, April 19, with the winning robot Tiangong Ultra finishing in two hours and 40 minutes Tiangong Ultra's time is far slower than the world record time of 56 minutes and 42 ...

HONG KONG -- 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 Beijing this weekend, a humanoid robot named Tiangong Ultra crossed a finish line that few imagined robots would even approach. It had fallen once, had its batteries swapped three times ...

Robot winner is Tiangong Ultra from Beijing robotics centre The first robot to finish had a time of 2 hours 40 minutes, the first human took just over an hour A few robots wore running shoes, with one ...

Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands of runners at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing yesterday, the first time those machines have raced alongside humans over a 21km course. The robots from ...

Some of China’s best humanoid robots took on the challenge of racing against human marathon runners on Saturday. One fell at the starting line. Another’s head fell off and rolled on the ground.

Picture fleets of robots, or “bots,” zipping around at speeds up to about 9 miles per hour, all coordinated by an AI-powered “air traffic control” system that talks to each bot ten times every second.

But the shift is spreading to other areas of the hotel industry more visible to customers, from autonomous cleaning robots that detect dirt buildup to check-in avatars on screens positioned at hotel ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. In one small step for robot-kind – thousands of them, really – humanoid robots ran alongside actual humans in a half-marathon in the Chinese ...