Fast running robots are fun, fueling the imagination with all manner of military or search-and-rescue scenarios. This may be the reason why so many different groups from Boston Dynamics to MIT have ...

Last Sunday, at the Beijing E-Town Half Marathon, a red humanoid robot of a type named Lightning finished the course in 50 minutes and 26 seconds—faster than the human world record. Its long legs were ...

Last weekend, Sabastian Sawe set a new world record with a sub-2-hour marathon, but he isn't the only one raising the bar for runners. On 19 April, a robot from Chinese smartphone maker Honor ...

Humanoid robots will run alongside thousands of humans in a half-marathon through an industrial-technology park in Beijing on April 19. More than 300 robots are expected to start the race this year, ...