Others fell over or overheated. However, the robots' goofy appearance made for an eye-catching show, with human runners and spectators alike taking photos and videos of the stiff-limbed contraptions.

it had only one robot from Germany and 1,074 robots made in Shanghai. China’s rapid advance in factory robotics has been propelled from the top down. Beijing’s “Made in China 2025 ...

Cars, factory robots, missiles, smart bombs, stealth fighters and many other products also require rare earth magnets made partly with heavy rare earth metals. Yang Jie, an export control lawyer ...

Neura Robotics has relocated production of its cognitive robots from China back to Germany. Its humanoid machines are designed for a variety of applications – from household chores to welding.

Humans raced against humanoid robots for the first time in a half-marathon in Beijing, China on Saturday. Even though humanoid robots have made appearances in marathons across China over the past year ...

Several Chinese state-backed industry groups have declared that U.S.-made chips are “no longer safe or reliable.” The robot-human race was another step forward in China’s goal of becoming ...

While technologically impressive, the outcome of the event should reassure those who fear robots will one day overrun humanity—because it appears they won’t be outrunning us any time soon.

About 12,000 human athletes ran in a half-marathon race in Beijing on Saturday, but most of the attention was on a group of other, more unconventional participants: 21 humanoid robots. The event ...

Battery swaps were allowed, but replacement would incur a steep penalty. Not all robots made it to the finish line, however, despite intervention by robotics and software experts. Not really ...

Advances in natural language processing have also made training robots simpler. "The ChatGPT moment for general robotics is just around the corner," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said during his keynote ...

One crashed into a railing after running a few metres, causing its human operator to fall over. Although humanoid robots have made appearances at marathons in China over the past year, this is the ...

Although humanoid robots have made appearances at marathons in China over the past year, this is the first time they have raced alongside humans. China is hoping that investment in frontier ...