In the latest episode of What the Future, we run down the best highlights and fails from the first World Humanoid Robot Games held last week in China. Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video ...

Gamers who want to experience the proxy life and emulate Zenless Zone Zero protagonists Belle and Wise can now deck their home workstation with all sorts of ZZZ PC gear thanks to a collaboration with ...

In mid-August, Beijing’s National Speed Skating Oval – the “Ice Ribbon” built for the 2022 Winter Olympics – hosted a new kind of sporting event. For four days, more than 500 humanoid robots from 16 ...

As biographer Gordon F. Sander notes in Serling: The Rise and Twilight of Television's Last Angry Man, the mastermind behind the groundbreaking anthology "was very athletic, showing talent and a lot ...

The first 'Robot Olympics' took place in Beijing in mid-August. At the World Humanoid Robot Games, machines competed in disciplines such as track and field, soccer, and martial arts. However, their ...

BEIJING — They aren’t the most graceful athletes, or the fastest. But they’re learning. From Friday to Sunday, human handlers from 16 countries put about 500 bipedal robots through various motions to ...

It’s official: the intersection of robotics and competitive sports has arrived with China’s three-day World Humanoid Robot Games, an event dubbed the “Robot Olympics.” On August 15, Beijing hosted the ...

You might have noticed that humanoid robots are having a bit of a moment. From Tesla’s Optimus to Figure AI’s Figure 02, these machines are no longer just science fiction – they’re walking, and in ...

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The Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing — featuring running, kickboxing and soccer — highlighted advancements in robotics. Limitations, too. By Yan Zhuang There’s a very real concern that robots could ...

In August 2025, a rumor began to spread that a "pregnancy robot" was in development in China. Social media posts and articles circulated with different AI-generated images of such a robot, including ...

A robot drew cheers from the packed crowd at China’s inaugural World Humanoid Robot Games — until it spectacularly face-planted and had to be hauled off stage by two real people. The pratfall during ...