The Japanese investment firm agreed to take over a business with more than 7,000 employees, which supplies industrial arms ...

Humanoid robots are to run together with humans in a half-marathon in Beijing. The distance is a stumbling block for the robots. More than 20 robotics companies that have developed humanoid robots are ...

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 course. The robots ...

A robot attends the Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon held in Beijing (Ng Han Guan/AP) In one small step for robot-kind – thousands of them, really – humanoid robots ran alongside actual humans in a ...

HONOR Device, the smartphone maker spun out from Huawei Technologies, is developing humanoid robots as part of its push into China’s crowded artificial intelligence (AI) arena. The Shenzhen-based ...

"It's not so much about winning, it's just about having a good fight," says Becky Dowson, who has travelled to ...