Man vs. machine: DeepMind’s new robot serves up a table tennis triumph Amateur-beating ping-pong AI learned to play in a simulated environment.

A half-marathon in Beijing featured a road race between human runners and 21 robot models—and showed how far robots still are from being able to mimic human activity.

Google DeepMind has introduced the first AI-powered robotic table tennis player capable of competing at an amateur human level. The system features an industrial robot arm, the ABB IRB 1100 ...

A man in South Korea was crushed to death by a robot that may have mistaken him for a box, according to reports. The victim, a worker in his 40s, was inspecting the robot's sensor at a vegetable ...

Seoul, South Korea — An industrial robot crushed a worker to death at a vegetable packaging plant in South Korea, police said Thursday, as they investigate whether the machine was unsafe or had ...

Engineers have harnessed the physics behind the flailing tube men to power a tiny soft “robot” capable of walking, hopping, and swimming. Plus their motion mechanism doesn’t need software ...

Video of a robotic dog equipped with a submachine gun is circulating social media -- months after a man living in Russia posted frightening footage of the dystopian killing machine on YouTube.

Twenty-one humanoid robots took to the streets of Beijing to join thousands of runners for the world's first man-vs-machine half-marathon but some struggled to cross the finish line.. The robots ...

A man was crushed to death by a robot in South Korea after it failed to differentiate him from a box of vegetables.. The victim, a robotics company worker in his 40s, was inspecting the machine's ...

The robot’s sensors are designed to identify boxes, and security camera footage indicated the man had moved near the robot with a box in his hands, which likely triggered the machine’s ...

Man Versus Machine as China Shows Off Humanoid Robots in Half-Marathon A Beijing half-marathon featured a road race between humans and 21 robot models—and showed how far robots still are from ...

Police are investigating whether the machine has any technical defects or safety issues. One report suggested that the man may have moved near the robot with a box in his hands, which could have ...