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

Humanoid robots in China have just beaten human runners in a Beijing half marathon, with the fastest racer finishing in 50 minutes. The win marks a sharp turnaround from last year, when many robots struggled.

Skild AI, a fast-rising startup that makes software to help robots learn to complete tasks, has bought the robotics automation division of Zebra Technologies Corp., marking its latest effort to broaden its reach in a hot segment.

Japanese technology giants SoftBank Group Corp., Sony Corp. and NEC Corp. are teaming up with Honda Motor Co., Ltd. on a new artificial intelligence joint venture that has a single goal: to build a trillion-parameter model for autonomous machines.

This breakthrough marks Panther as the world’s first mass-producible, commercially viable service humanoid robot deployed in real households, breaking through the long-standing

Accenture Ventures invests in General Robotics, whose GRID platform deploys AI skills across 40+ robots from different manufacturers to scale factory automation.

The Hyundai Motor Group partnership is a credible on-device generative AI robotics platform validation, and the article flags a path to scale manufacturing plus fundraising/IPO—exactly what you want before commercialization.

They may seem like scenes out of a slapstick comedy, but viral robot mishaps are no laughing matter — experts even warn they could foreshadow a “Terminator”-level apocalypse. A humanoid dance bot was recently performing for patrons at the Haidilao hotpot restaurant in San Jose,

Workers wearing camera headsets in a viral video have prompted discussion about AI training methods, automation, and what it could mean for jobs.