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

The Future of Home Help: Humanoid Robots Taking Over Household Chores Imagine waking up to a tidy living room, freshly

The world changed on February 10, 1996, when a computer called Deep Blue beat chess champion Garry Kasparov. It may have changed last Sunday again in Beijing, when a human-shaped robot ran a half-marathon

Walker S2 is an adult-sized humanoid robot with legs, a torso, and arms. China is sending these robots to patrol their border with Vietnam.

We are now in the humanoid robot era, and they're starting to show up in our homes. But are they any good? And what's the path to improvement?

Where there's a need, there's often an artificial intelligence solution, at least in Silicon Valley. A "socially intelligent" artificial intelligence-powered humanoid robot is being tested for several months at San Jose Mineta International Airport.