We already have wheeled robots. Wheels and treads work much better than bipedal limbs, and can be stabilized much easier. Tanks aren't built with legs for a reason ...

According to Itone, use of the Conit Runner reduces the need for rebar reinforcement by up to 30% and accelerates construction time by as much as 85%, reportedly matching the productivity of eight ...

Robots competed in a half marathon race in Beijing on Sunday, with the winning machine leaving its human rivals for dust.

A world half-marathon record was broken at a race in China this weekend. But the winner wasn't an Olympian or even a competitive racer. It was a bright red humanoid robot. Nickname? Lightning. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a historic fusion of athletic tradition and cutting-edge technology, humanoid robots and human runners took to the same half ...

On the morning of April 19, 2026, a bipedal humanoid robot built by Chinese tech company Honor crossed the finish line of a half-marathon in Beijing’s Economic-Technological Development Area, known as ...

A humanoid robot named Lightning set a record for the fastest half-marathon at the 2026 Beijing E-Town event Sunday in Beijing. (Wang Liangyuan / VCG via Getty Images) Slide over, Jacob Kiplimo. The ...

Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands of runners at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing on Saturday, the first time these machines have raced alongside humans over a 21-km (13-mile) course.

I think that the key phrase in your post is "dedicated designs". Sure, if you're building a car a large waldo arm makes more sense than a humanoid robot. A dishwasher is better than that humanoid ...