Humanoid robots spent 2025 straddling a strange line between breakthrough and blooper reel. They poured lattes, posed in fashion campaigns and even stepped into kickboxing rings, only to trip, ...

What Humanoid Robots Actually Look Like in 2026. The Unitree G1 Humanoid Robot Is Rewriting Robotics Economics—And Most ...

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The robot that won the humanoid half-marathon this month finished in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, a major improvement compared ...

Last year at the Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon in Beijing the winning robot stumbled across the finish line in 2 hours and 40 ...

A self-navigating robot called Lightning, developed by Chinese electronics company Honor, won the 13.1-mile race. Its results ...

Robots can now run a half-marathon faster than humans and are rapidly homing in on the 100-metre sprint record. But why are ...

They were trailing behind their human rivals a year ago. But on Sunday, an android outpaced the entire field to run a ...

AI breakthroughs are reviving investor interest in humanoid robots More than 2,000 engineers and investors gathered at the Humanoids Summit China leads global funding and development of humanoid ...

The android won a race featuring robots and humans on Sunday in Beijing, achieving a technological milestone while finishing ...

CES 2026 gave the world a lot to be excited about. This year’s focus was autonomy, advanced sensing, artificial intelligence, ...

This striking humanoid robot is the R1 from Robbyant, a company owned by Chinese tech giant Ant Group. The allure of humanoid robots is their versatility – you can imagine them doing any job that a ...