An autonomous robot from the company Honor ran a half marathon in 50:26, beating the human record by 7 minutes.

BEIJING — It was not even close as a bright red Chinese humanoid named “Lightning” lived up to its name in a half-marathon pitting humans against robots, smoking its competition on Sunday ...

China has unveiled an AI-powered humanoid robot that it plans to send to the Moon as part of its 2029 Chang’e-8 mission.

BEIJING--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.

China has announced that its planned Chang’e-8 mission will feature a new robotic “Moon ...

BEIJING, CHINA - Media OutReach Newswire - 20 April 2026 - China Unicom and Huawei capped off a series of successful ...

The point of automation is ultimately to replace workers, who need to be paid a regular wage, with robots, which do not. This ...

Humanoid robots have gone from lab curiosities to viral performers, and few moments capture that shift as vividly as a recent concert in China where metallic dancers moved with uncanny human-like ...

(Yicai) May 4 -- During the Labor Day holiday, Hangzhou, in east China's Zhejiang Province, deployed a fully operational ...

China is trying to address a key bottleneck in its national push for embodied artificial intelligence by employing human laborers to train humanoid robots. Local governments have reportedly ...

But the race wasn’t without hiccups - one robot fell flat at the start line while another bumped into a barrier.