Over 500 robots competed in soccer, boxing, and running. In many cases, gravity was the real winner. This week, China’s leading robotics minds gathered in Beijing for a hotly-anticipated, Olympics-style event dubbed the world’s first “ Humanoid Robot Games. ”

While Ukraine has been developing hundreds of "iron soldiers" for combat, evacuation, and scouting, Russia is testing its own ground-based drones too.

Humanoid robots have showcased their talents at the opening ceremony of the first World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing. The event began on Thursday evening.

Grid Aero wants to build fleets of low-cost, long-range autonomous cargo planes that could foil Chinese defenses designed to choke off U.S. forces.

As a new robot drummer video shows, talent runs the gamut in robots about as much as it does for human musicians.

Roboticists in China have developed a life-sized, furry, AI-enabled antelope designed to monitor the migration patterns of its real-life counterpart. This “bionic” antelope is part of a growing arsenal of somewhat convincing-looking robots used to observe wildlife in up close and personal ways human researchers often can’t.

After a slow start, the Miami Marlins have been one of Major League Baseball’s best teams since late June. A 1,2000-pound pitching robot may be one reason why.