One of Luke Mariak’s favorite memories is of a Nike shoe on UCLA’s Intramural Field aiming toward a soccer ball. The shoe, however, was not his own — it was that of Advanced Robotic Technology for ...

Roborock has teased a two-legged robot cleaner ahead of CES 2026, alongside a big brand partnership with Real Madrid.

In 2019, I became a member of both the Technical Committee and the Organizing Committee of the Humanoid League. After serving ...

Four teams of humanoid robots faced off in a 3-on-3 soccer match in Beijing in June. The match was a robotic fiasco that was guided – or misguided – by artificial intelligence. The game was touted as ...

Humanoid robots waddled, stumbled and occasionally face-planted their way through a 3-on-3 soccer tournament in Beijing on Saturday that looked more like the first day of little league than the rise ...

A team of researchers from Google’s DeepMind AI lab have programmed a pair of little humanoid robots to play a classic match of one-versus-one soccer — and the results are absolutely adorable. A video ...

On the outskirts of Beijing, young Chinese entrepreneur Cheng Hao sits on an indoor soccer pitch – but this turf isn’t for humans. It’s where engineers working for his start-up, Booster Robotics, ...

In the realm of physical sports, humans have always held the upper hand until now. Researchers at DeepMind have developed robots capable of playing soccer. The Deep RL technique was used to train ...

Smarter data processing could make machines more helpful and energy-efficient in the real world. A good way to test this principle is robot soccer. Robots perceive the world around them very ...

More than 500 humanoid robots and thousands of spectators traveled to Beijing over the weekend for a sporting event straight out of a science fiction film: the first-of-its-kind World Humanoid Robot ...