The Beijing half-marathon race record time for a humanoid robot of 50 minutes 26 seconds is almost two hours quicker than the fastest robot in the 2025 race.

In a quiet South Carolina town where factory shifts once set the rhythm of daily life, a new kind of coworker is clocking in: humanoid robots. These human-shaped machines—designed to walk, lift, carry, and handle tools in spaces built for people—are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It has emerged that Foundation, a San Francisco-based US company, handed over two Phantom MK-1 humanoid soldier robots to Ukraine in February. Details: Time reported that the two robots ...

In summer 2025, you read a news item about plans for humanoid robots to be deployed in South Korean shipyards to tackle welding tasks. You don’t think much about it because the commercial deployment is planned for the beginning of 2027 and,

Unitree's R1, one of the most affordable humanoid robots yet, could soon make its way to international markets, including the US.

Hardware was only affordable to the most well-funded labs, and now it's in the range where labs and even small companies can think about buying one. Read more here.

As companies like Tesla, Figure AI, and Agility Robotics race to build humanoids—robots designed to resemble and move like humans in factories and homes—videos recorded by gig workers like Zeus are becoming the hottest new way to train them.