McDonald’s experimenting with robot employees that look like humans — and even dress in uniform

A McDonald’s in a Chinese city piloted humanoid robots to serve meals and entertain customers, according to reports. Videos posted on social media captured the myriad of lifelike robots at a McDonald’s in Shanghai performing routine tasks typically completed by human workers,
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Over 300 humanoid robots to compete in China half-marathon in April

More than 300 humanoid robots will join human runners for the second consecutive year in a Beijing half-marathon on April 19.
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Humanoid Robots Are Learning Tennis — and It’s a Big Leap for Real-World AI

A new AI system called LATENT helps a humanoid robot react faster on the tennis court by learning from imperfect human motion data.
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This Video of a Humanoid Robot Playing Perfect Tennis Is Extremely Impressive

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30 Years Ago, Robots Learned to Walk Without Falling

PO, the human-cyborg-relations android from Star Wars. C-3PO was designed to assist humans in communicating with robots and alien species.

A humanoid robot was arrested for frightening a 70-year-old woman

A humanoid robot has made headlines in Macau after a viral video captured it seemingly harassing a 70-year-old woman on a narrow street, sparking mixed reactions online. In the footage, the woman