While flesh-and-blood participants followed conventional rules, the 20 teams fielding machines in the Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon competed under tailored guidelines, which included battery swap pit ...

The 2025 Shanghai Half Marathon kicks off on April 20. [Photo provided to China Daily] Passionate international runners participating in the 2025 Shanghai Half Marathon, which concluded on Sunday ...

Yes, trust AFP to show only the worst photos. We can't have the rest of the world see the other robots. Or the robot that danced with ishowspeed the other day. The thing in the main picture is ...

The "Tiangong Ultra" humanoid robot, built by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, made history on Saturday by winning the first-ever humanoid half-marathon, clocking in at 2 hours, 40 ...

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

Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands of runners at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing on Saturday, the first time these machines have raced alongside humans over a 21-km (13-mile) course.

Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands of runners at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing on Saturday, the first time machines have raced alongside humans over a 21-km (13-mile) course.

All of the runners had been specifically trained to compete in the half marathon with some even wearing running trainers and donning boxing gloves. The athletic androids came from various ...

Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands of runners at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing on Saturday, the first time these machines have raced alongside humans over a 21km (13-mile ...

In a futuristic twist on traditional athletics, humanoid robots ran to keep up with humans at what organizers called the world’s first half marathon in Beijing on Saturday. The 21-km course wound ...

BEIJING: Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands of runners at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing on Saturday (Apr 19), the first time these machines have raced alongside humans over a ...