TL;DR: In a groundbreaking event, 12,000 humans will race against bipedal robots in a long-distance competition where the use of wheels is prohibited. What's the point of creating a humanoid robot if ...

The April race isn't China's first brush with integrating humanoid robotics into sports. In a trial run last fall, Tiangong, a bipedal robot participated in the Beijing Yizhuang half-marathon. Beijing ...

BEIJING — In one small step for robot-kind — thousands of them, really — humanoid robots ran alongside actual humans in a half-marathon in the Chinese capital on Saturday. The bipedal robots of ...

As for how the bipedal robots faired, only six managed to successfully finish the course, with almost every robot falling down and combating overheating issues, according to Wired. The robots ran the ...

Here at New Atlas, we like to keep tabs on developments in the world of robotics – just so we're aware of how soon Terminator-style machines will assemble and march against the human race. As it turns ...