Humanoid robots are getting a new gig as baggage handlers and cargo loaders at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport—part of a Japan Airlines experiment to address a human labor shortage as airport visitor numbers ...

Most people think of Toyota and picture a Camry, a Tacoma, maybe a Prius. A 7-foot-2 robot shooting free throws at halftime of a professional basketball game? That's a harder image to conjure. But ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A paddle-wielding robot is so adept at playing ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk believes the Optimus robot will become the company's most important product. Optimus is a bipedal, autonomous humanoid robot designed for various tasks, from factory work to ...

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 ...

Ukraine aims to have robots handle 100% of front-line logistics missions. Its defense minister said Ukraine will contract 25,000 robots in the first half of this year. Their use has surged. They carry ...

A humanoid robot aptly named Lightning made history on the streets of Beijing over the weekend, beating the human half-marathon world record by several minutes. Dozens of robots lined up for the ...

BEIJING — A humanoid robot that won a half-marathon race for robots in Beijing on Sunday ran faster than the human world record in a show of China's technological leaps. The winner from Honor, a ...

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. Subscribe ...

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The scene is as old as warfare itself. Two soldiers, hands in the air, surrendering and carefully following the orders barked at them by the other side. Except in this case, there were no human ...

BEIJING (AP) — A humanoid robot that won a half-marathon race for robots in Beijing on Sunday ran faster than the human world record in a show of China's technological leaps. The winner from Honor, a ...