Walker Buehler threw his arms wide open in celebration when he got the final out last season for the Los Angeles Dodgers to win the World Series.

Abstract: Harmonious human-robot collaboration requires the robot to behave like a human partner, which raises the critical question of what factors make the robot do so. This paper proposes a series ...

The inaugural World Humanoid Robot Games were held in Beijing earlier in the month. The event featured athletic challenges (such as track, football, and boxing), cognitive tests, and artistic ...

When it comes to Final Girls, one of the best is undoubtedly Samara Weaving’s Grace le Domas in Ready or Not. She goes from having the best day of her life to fighting for her life in the span of one ...

Sensor data is like brain food for robots, and as robots become more complex and sophisticated in their ability to take in many more data streams for many more sensors they will need more powerful AI ...

In the latest episode of What the Future, we run down the best highlights and fails from the first World Humanoid Robot Games held last week in China. Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video ...

Many outlets — including Newsweek, The Economic Times, and ChosunBiz — named a Chinese outlet, Kuai Ke Zhi, as the story's source. Zhang Qifeng, the developer of the bot intended to carry a pregnancy ...

In mid-August, Beijing’s National Speed Skating Oval – the “Ice Ribbon” built for the 2022 Winter Olympics – hosted a new kind of sporting event. For four days, more than 500 humanoid robots from 16 ...

The Chinese robotics community hosted the World Humanoid Robot Games 2025 at the National Speed Skating Oval last week. The Ice Ribbon is located on Beijing’s Olympic Green. It was the main venue for ...

The first World Humanoid Robot Games concluded in Beijing after three days of competition featuring 280 teams from 16 countries, according to CNBC. Robots built by Chinese firms Unitree, Booster, ...

It’s official: the intersection of robotics and competitive sports has arrived with China’s three-day World Humanoid Robot Games, an event dubbed the “Robot Olympics.” On August 15, Beijing hosted the ...