A Unitree G1 robot sparred with a human journalist, showing how far humanoid robotics has come and where the technology still falls short.

Chinese robots have performed complex moves like humans during the world’s first humanoid robot boxing match held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. Robots demonstrated a wide range of combat skills and ...

Robot boxing drew paying fans in San Francisco as VR pilots controlled Unitree G1 humanoids, hinting at a future league of ...

After watching numerous videos of humanoid robots adopting kung-fu poses, having seven bells kicked out of them, and generally looking like they’re up for a fight, it’s little surprise that humanoid ...

Remotely operated one-armed boxing robots, inspired by the 2011 movie Real Steel, can respond to a person’s movements in as little as one hundredth of a second. “Taking inspiration from the film and ...

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These days, robots with varying degrees of impressiveness can manage all kinds of tasks. But two diminutive humanoids seen boxing with outsize gloves at the recent World AI Conference in Shanghai may ...