BEIJING — It was not even close as a bright red Chinese humanoid named “Lightning” lived up to its name in a half-marathon pitting humans against robots, smoking its competition on Sunday

Humanoid machines slowly picked up litter and sorted out bouquets of flowers on Tuesday in a demonstration of how robots might eventually be used to

The feat occurred at an even in Beijing that pitted robots against human runners. The humanoid robotics market is on the rise and could reach 1 billion machines by 2050. A 5′ 5″ bipedal robot named Lightning just crushed the human world record time for running a half marathon,

THIS is the shocking moment a marathon-running robot smashed into pieces after tripping – before being dramatically carried away on a stretcher by a medical crew. The mechanical runner