The era of us laughing at humanoids playing sport may now be behind us – for the most part – as a field of robots competing in a half marathon in Beijing demonstrated how frighteningly fast the techno...

A humanoid robot broke the half-marathon world record while competing against thousands of human runners.

Smartphone maker Honor's robot 'Lightning' lived up to its name and was crowned champion of the 2026 Beijing E‑Town Humanoid Robot Half‑Marathon, even breaking the men's world record of 57:20, held by...