The first World Humanoid Robot Games began on Friday in Beijing with over 500 androids alternating between jerky tumbles and glimpses of real power as they compete in events from the 100-metre hurdles ...

Robot athletes are going for the gold in Beijing, China, as the first ever World Humanoid Robot Games kicked off on Thursday. Remotely operated by their human teams, the robots will be tested for ...

As football became prevalent around the globe, not only humans were involved in this sport, but robots, too, enjoyed this game. Two robot teams were playing in the school football field, each team had ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -China kicked off the three-day long World Humanoid Robot Games on Friday, looking to showcase its advances in artificial intelligence and robotics with 280 teams from 16 countries.

Former England striker Gary Lineker once said: "Football is a simple game. 22 men kick a ball about for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win." Apparently the same is even true in robot ...

Joost Weerheim, an operator with a Dutch five-a-side robot football team, told AFP he was impressed. "I think right now if they are not already the world leader, they are very, very quickly becoming ...

At one of the first events on Friday, five-a-side football, 10 robots the size of seven-year-olds shuffled around the pitch, often getting stuck in a scrum or falling over en masse. However, in a ...