At the Olympiad, organizers hoped to lay a foundation for annual competitions providing an “honest validation of the progress ...

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece — With jerky determination, robots played soccer, wowed children with shadow-boxing skills and shot arrows on Monday at the birthplace of the Olympic Games. As they shuffled ...

General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition ...

I was a little disappointed by China’s World Humanoid Robot Games. As fun as real-life Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots is, what people really care about is robots doing their chores. This is why robot ...

Robots have been showing what they can do at the birthplace of the Olympic Games. The machines were in Ancient Olympia to demonstrate that they are starting to master more human skills.

The world's first-ever humanoid robot games began Friday in Beijing, with over 500 androids competing in events from the ...

The Chinese government is betting that robots will drive economic growth. But the bots can’t really do much yet.

In South Korea, it's already unremarkable to see robots cleaning the airport, teaching English and working assembly lines. In 2016, the country sold some 41,000 robots, half as many as China, which ...