Sony’s AI robot Ace defeated top table tennis players in a milestone that could reshape the future of robotics and sports ...
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Sony's table tennis robot beat a pro player she couldn't read
Mayuka Taira, a professional table tennis player, lost to a robot called Ace in December 2025 and described the experience: ...
The record was originally held by Jacob Kiplimo of Uganda ...
A self-navigating humanoid robot named Lightning won the 2026 Beijing E-Town Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon, surpassing the human world record by several minutes. The five-and-a-half-foot android, ...
China's humanoid robot race got a lot more serious this year. The winning machine didn't just improve on last year — it ...
Humanoid robots outran the fastest human competitors while surpassing the human world record during a half-marathon event ...
A self-navigating robot called Lightning, developed by Chinese electronics company Honor, won the 13.1-mile race. Its results ...
An AI-powered robot outplayed elite table tennis players and has been hailed as a milestone in robotics. The Sony AI robot, ...
Last year’s inaugural race saw many of the participating humanoids stumble, careen out of control, or just lie down at the ...
A premapped course, a crew of handlers and a world-beating time: here’s what this Beijing half marathon reveals about how far ...
In Beijing, a humanoid robot named Lightning finished a half marathon in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, beating the human world ...
Some robots ran the Beijing half-marathon autonomously, while others were controlled remotely, all competing on a parallel ...
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