Humanoid robots grooved to hip-hop, sparred in martial arts, and even played guitar and drums on Thursday evening as Beijing opened the inaugural World Humanoid Robot Games. Beijing’s first World Humanoid Robot Games open with hip-hop, soccer, boxing, track and more. pic.twitter.com/81oXZtpoxs— The Associated Press (@AP) August 14, 2025 The three-day spectacle has drawn more…
Indian-origin engineer Ashok Elluswamy, who currently heads Tesla’s Autopilot division, has also been put in charge of the company’s Optimus humanoid robot project following the departure of Milan Kovac, the head of engineering for the programme, according to a report in Bloomberg. Elluswamy, who was born and educated in Chennai, was the first engineer to…
China is way ahead of time. How? You might have seen a human vs robot race, but only in movies. China is bringing this to reality. Twenty-one humanoid machines joined human runners in a 21-kilometre half-marathon for the very first time in Beijing. Teams from universities, research institutions, and tech firms joined the race. Chinese…
On a recent morning, I knocked on the front door of a handsome two-story home in Redwood City, Calif. Within seconds, the door was opened by a faceless robot dressed in a beige bodysuit that clung tight to its trim waist and long legs. This svelte humanoid greeted me with what seemed to be a…