China’s robot race just delivered a future-looking headline after a humanoid machine outran a historic human benchmark ...

There has been a lot of talk about a fully autonomous robot that broke a human world record during a half marathon in China.

Humanoid robots are often marketed as the next leap in automation—machines that can walk, talk, grasp objects, and think independently. Product videos show robots folding laundry, stocking shelves ...

For centuries, people tried to build ornithopters that flapped like birds, but none became a practical path to human flight.