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Beijing’s Humanoid Robot Marathon

A humanoid robot sprints past the human half-marathon world record in Beijing race

BEIJING — A humanoid robot that won a half-marathon race for robots in Beijing on Sunday ran faster than the human world record in a show of China's technological leaps.

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Humanoid Robot Wins Half-Marathon and Smashes Humans’ Record

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Humanoid robots speed past humans in Beijing half marathon

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This Humans vs. Robots Half-Marathon Didn’t Go Well… For Humans

Dozens of Chinese-made humanoid robots showed off their fast-improving athleticism and autonomous navigation skills as they whizzed past human runners in a half-marathon race in Beijing on Sunday, hig...

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New breed of humanoid robots trained to maintain China’s power grid

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Robot Easily Beats Human Record at Beijing Half Marathon

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A Humanoid Robot Set a Half-Marathon Record in China

The star performer was a robot developed by the Chinese company Honor (the smartphone maker ), which finished the 13.1-mile race in 50 minutes, 26 seconds.

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Chinese Humanoid Robot ‘Lightning’ Outruns Humans, Sets New World Record

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Humanoid robots show rapid advances as they race past humans in Beijing half marathon

Studica Robotics Receives 2026 Partner Excellence Award from FIRST® Robotics Canada

SANBORN, N.Y., Apr. 20, 2026 / PRZen / Studica Robotics is proud to announce it has been awarded the 2026 Partner

I just saw the first film ever made about a robot and I guess we've always been worried about them

We've been obsessed with humanoid robots for a long time, more than a century in fact. While most credit Czech writer Karel Čapek with coining the term "robot" in 1920, we now have evidence of a robot run amok from one of film's first artists: George Méliès.

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Could This Be the First Humanoid Robot to Bring You Breakfast and Wake Up the Kids?

It has the shape of a human, it dresses like one, and it’s soft enough to avoid harming people and damaging property. This is the Figure 03, the first humanoid robot that we know of to have been designed specifically for use in homes. The robot was ...

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AI Robotics: Moving from the lab to the real-world factory floor

Learn the real-world infrastructure and effort required to deploy AI robotics from leaders at Universal Robots, PickNik, and Path Robotics.