At the Olympiad, organizers hoped to lay a foundation for annual competitions providing an “honest validation of the progress ...

“This is our first time participating in such a world-class competition in Beijing’s Haidian District, so we’re incredibly excited. We’re excited to be able to compete with team members from all over ...

Robot teams from China and other countries preparing for the inaugural World Humanoid Robot Games which are scheduled to take place between August 14 and 17 in Beijing. Thirty robot teams have been ...

More than 500 humanoid robots and thousands of spectators traveled to Beijing over the weekend for a sporting event straight out of a science fiction film: the first-of-its-kind World Humanoid Robot ...

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — With jerky determination, robots played soccer, wowed children with shadow-boxing skills and shot arrows on Monday at the birthplace of the Olympic Games. As they ...

China is betting big on humanoid robots — for sports. June saw the launch of the RoBoLeague in Beijing, where fully autonomous robots play three-on-three soccer matches with roughly the skill of ...

When people thought human beings in China would be replaced by robots, we thought about the workplaces, and because of the growth of technology, we just thought the growth of AI and robots in general ...

General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition ...

Humanoid robots danced hip-hop, performed martial arts and played keyboard, guitar and drums at the opening ceremony of the first World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on Thursday evening. The ...

With jerky determination, robots played soccer, wowed children with shadow-boxing skills and shot arrows on Monday at the birthplace of the Olympic Games. As they shuffled and occasionally froze for a ...