KYOTO, Japan — The robot appeared in the hotel hallway as if out of nowhere, R2D2-sized, silently rolling, on a mission of undetermined nature from its robot overlords. A group of us Yankee travelers had just exited the elevator, and somewhere in the ...

We humans have mastered fire, split the atom, and shot ourselves into space. We've built machines that can outthink us and tools that can cook us lunch or cut open our chests to perform life-saving surgeries. That's all well and good. The space part is ...

The H1, which is equipped with 3D LiDAR and depth cameras, showed remarkable spatial awareness and balance on uneven terrain. It took home two gold medals at the 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, after dominating both the 400-meter and 1,500-meter running events.