A robot from DroidUp walks to the award ceremony after winning the second runner up position in the Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon held in Beijing on Saturday, April 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) ...

On Saturday, Beijing hosted what’s being called the world’s first humanoid half-marathon—a footrace that pitted human runners against human-like robots. While technologically impressive, the ...

Beijing — 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 robots ...

BEIJING — 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 13-mile ...

Step by mechanical step, dozens of humanoid robots took to the streets of Beijing early on Saturday, joining thousands of their flesh-and-blood counterparts in a world-first half marathon ...

More than 20 two-legged robots competed in the world's first humanoid half-marathon in China on Saturday, and - though technologically impressive - they were far from outrunning their human ...

Twenty-one humanoid robots competed in the half-marathon in Beijing. VCG/VCG via Getty Images Noetix Robotics showed off the N2, an over 40-pound humanoid robot about 3 feet tall.

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China's first humanoid robot has officially entered the graduate school's Ph.D. program. After graduation, the possibility of ...

BEIJING — 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.