A premapped course, a crew of handlers and a world-beating time: here’s what this Beijing half marathon reveals about how far ...

The era of us laughing at humanoids playing sport may now be behind us – for the most part – as a field of robots competing ...

Earlier this year, a robot completed a half-marathon in Beijing in just under 2 hours and 40 minutes. That's slower than the human winner, who clocked in at just over an hour—but it's still a ...