They were trailing behind their human rivals a year ago. But on Sunday, an android outpaced the entire field to run a half-marathon faster than even the quickest human.

A self-navigating robot called Lightning, developed by Chinese electronics company Honor, won the 13.1-mile race. Its results ...

Humanoid robots aren’t “coming soon” anymore — they’re already here, already shipping, and already being deployed in the real ...

The droid named Lightning finished the 21km race in just over 50 minutes, beating the human record by seven minutes on 19 April. Developed by smartphone giant HONOR, the android smashed the previous ...

Tiangong Ultra, developed by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, also known as X-Humanoid, won last year's inaugural half-marathon with a time of two hours, 40 minutes, and 42 seconds, ...

While Americans excel at producing deadly robots of militaristic persuasions, the Japanese are arguably the most competent designers of eerily human-like robots. Behold Kodomoroid and Otonaroid, two ...