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The first ever Humanoid Robot Games got underway on Friday in Beijing, as ITV News Asia Correspondent Debi Edwards reports

It had been billed as the Olympics for Robots, and was even being held at one of Beijing’s previous Winter Olympic venues.

The stage was set for a sporting event like no other - and it kicked off on the track with the 1,500 metres.

That’s perhaps when we started to question the comparison between the first World Humanoid Robot Games and the Olympics.

One robot, from the Chinese company Unitree, streaked ahead, while many of the others struggled to make the distance or just took too long.

Several would have had grounds to complain about the ill-fitting running shoes wedged onto their feet. I spotted blatant signs of fixing and one team was ru

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