What just happened? It appears that one thing humanoid robots still can't do better than their human counterparts is long-distance running. This fact was illustrated during a half-marathon in Beijing, ...

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In a spectacle that combined elements of science fiction and athletics, China held its first-ever humanoid robot half-marathon over the weekend, pitting machines against more than 12,000 human runners ...

If the idea of robots taking on humans in a road race conjures dystopian images of android athletic supremacy, then fear not, for now at least. More than 20 two-legged robots competed in the world’s ...

This humanoid robot has a mind of its own. Researchers at Tianjin University in China have created a robot that is controlled by human brain cells in a first-of-its-kind breakthrough in biocomputation ...

With reports that Tesla's Optimus robots were human-aided at the company's We, Robot event, we take a look at the Optimus Gen-2 and the rival Unitree G1. Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video ...

In 2018, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, made a striking admission on Twitter (now known as X): "Yes, excessive automation at Tesla was a mistake. To be precise, my mistake. Humans are underrated.

A new study found that employees are more likely to be lazy when working near or with robots versus working on their own or with a group of people. Scientists at the Technical University of Berlin in ...