I'm always keeping a very close eye on the state of robotics. I'm equally excited and terrified by it. On one hand, I'd love to have a robot around the house so it could fold my laundry and make me ...

On April 19, 2026, in Beijing, China, @Lālālālāla shared a video of a humanoid robot running during the Beijing E-Town Humanoid Robot Half Marathon. In the video, the robot, decorated with rabbit ears ...

China’s humanoid robot half marathon showed real gains in speed and autonomy, even if the race still revealed clear technical limits.

A humanoid robot named Flash stunned the sporting world by completing the 2026 Beijing E‑Town half‑marathon and outpacing a human-set world record. The robot completed the 21‑km course in 50 minutes ...

It was a proving ground, a stress test, and a public demonstration of how far embodied artificial intelligence has come in China. In a global context increasingly defined by technological rivalry, it ...