PASADENA, Calif. -- Now the robots are even taking over soccer. At Caltech, students fielded teams of soccer-playing robots Tuesday in the Tridroid Cup, a tournament designed to test engineering ...

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, ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

Cheng, a 37-year-old Beijinger, is at the vanguard of China ’s decade-long push into humanoid robot technology. He founded the company in 2023, inspired by the release of Tesla’s first humanoid ...

This year marked the first-ever international sporting event to feature humanoid robots as athletes. These robots, with some help from the humans behind their creation, competed against each other in ...