Earlier this year, a robot completed a half-marathon in Beijing in just under 2 hours and 40 minutes. That’s slower than the human winner, who clocked in at just over an hour – but it’s still a ...

For years, the Achilles’ heel of general-purpose humanoid robots has been their inability to move quickly. Companies that build humanoid robots often ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BEIJING (AP) — In one small step for ...

BEIJING (AP) -- In one small step for robot-kind -- thousands of them, really -- humanoid robots ran alongside actual humans in a half-marathon Saturday in the Chinese capital of Beijing. The bipedal ...

Fast food just got even faster. When it comes to flipping burgers, robots are making mincemeat out of the human competition — just check out the newly-opened Burgerbots in California’s Silicon Valley, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) James Pikul, University of Wisconsin-Madison (THE CONVERSATION) Earlier this year, a ...