China continues to make strides in the robotics industry. This time, the nation's engineers at robotic startup Mirror Me have created a new ultrafast robot dog called the Black Panther 2.0. It can run ...

Fast running robots are fun, fueling the imagination with all manner of military or search-and-rescue scenarios. This may be the reason why so many different groups from Boston Dynamics to MIT have ...

Dog-like robots the likes of the Boston Dynamics Spot have been around for so long now that they don't scare us as much as they used to. Yet, I can't help getting shivers down my spine every time I ...

A robot's intelligence can be smart, fast, or free of network dependency, but never all three at once. The embodied trilemma is anchored in physics, and the architecture that resolves it was designed ...

Last weekend, Sabastian Sawe set a new world record with a sub-2-hour marathon, but he isn't the only one raising the bar for runners. On 19 April, a robot from Chinese smartphone maker Honor ...

Last Sunday, at the Beijing E-Town Half Marathon, a red humanoid robot of a type named Lightning finished the course in 50 minutes and 26 seconds—faster than the human world record. Its long legs were ...