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

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

Some robots ran the Beijing half-marathon autonomously, while others were controlled remotely, all competing on a parallel ...

An autonomous robot from the company Honor ran a half marathon in 50:26, beating the human record by 7 minutes.

Last year at the Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon in Beijing the winning robot stumbled across the finish line in 2 hours and 40 ...

The winning time is a massive improvement over last year’s race, when the fastest robot finished in two hours and 40 minutes.

The demonstration centers on a controlled track test in which the robot passes a speed-measurement device at peak velocity.

Munich-based company RobCo recently unveiled a new industrial humanoid robot – named Autonomous Alfie ...

It finished the 21.1-mile race in 50 minutes and 26 seconds. The world record was set just a month ago by Jacob Kiplimo, at 57 minutes and 20 seconds. More impressively, when this race was held last ...

The winner from Honor, a Chinese smartphone maker, completed the race in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, running faster than the ...