Robot created by Japanese company Sony's AI research unit Ace attains expert-level performance in a physical sport Matches use International Table Tennis Federation rules April 22 (Reuters) - An ...

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 ...

A humanoid robot aptly named Lightning made history on the streets of Beijing over the weekend, beating the human half-marathon world record by several minutes. Dozens of robots lined up for the ...

BEIJING (AP) — 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. The winner from Honor, a ...

Humanity may have found an unlikely solution to the scourge of wild pigs invading European cities — boar-herding bots. Bizarre footage shows the moment an AI-powered robot chased away a herd of wild ...

Could a humanoid robot perform household chores for you? Soon, that might be the case. Chinese robotics company UniX AI has announced the release of Panther, a humanoid service robot designed to help ...

The Helix 02 humanoid robot from Figure Robotics showcases a remarkable ability to handle the complexities of living room cleanup, a task that demands both adaptability and precision. Unlike the ...

The Robot Phone has a robotic camera that can track subjects as they move around. Honor also launched the Magic V6, its latest foldable smartphone. The releases come against the ongoing shortage of ...

On Jan. 15, 2026, Michael Hanaway, M.D., surgical director of the Kidney Transplant Program at University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Muhammad Rabbani, M.D., assistant professor in the Division of ...

The very capable robotic picker-upper can grasp things on both sides and roam around freely. By Ari Daniel As a mother of three, Aude Billard, a roboticist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Alan Boyle on Jan 14, 2026 at 8:15 ...