A robot developed by Chinese smartphone maker Honor just broke the world record for the fastest half-marathon finish time at the Beijing E-Town competition. The Beijing long-touted robots vs. humans half-marathon was held last Sunday,

China’s humanoid robot half marathon showed real gains in speed and autonomy, even if the race still revealed clear technical limits.

BEIJING — It was not even close as a bright red Chinese humanoid named “Lightning” lived up to its name in a half-marathon pitting humans against robots, smoking its competition on Sunday

The latest boom in robotics represents a revolution in the way machines have learned to interact with the world.

Robot rentals are a new and niche market, but North Texas startup The Robot Studio is betting on robots being the life of the party.

Pragmata features a grizzled soldier and a robot child but doesn’t have the emotional bond of The Last of Us or The Walking Dead.