On August 16, 2025, a humanoid robot tackled an obstacle course at the World Humanoid Robot Games. Footage showed the machine sprinting, climbing steps, and balancing on beams at Beijing's track. The ...

BEIJING (AP) — In one small step for robot-kind — thousands of them, really — humanoid robots ran alongside actual humans in a half-marathon in the Chinese capital on Saturday. The bipedal robots of ...

Aug 26 - Modern pentathletes are optimistic about the prospect of tackling obstacle course racing for the first time at the World Championships in Lithuania this week, as the sport looks to reinvent ...

The federations for modern pentathlon approved a decision to replace horse riding with "American Ninja Warrior"-style obstacle courses as a fifth discipline in order to save the sport from Olympic ...