In another AI push, China holds the world's first sports event for humanoid robots

BEIJING — They aren’t the most graceful athletes, or the fastest. But they’re learning. From Friday to Sunday, human handlers from 16 countries put about 500 bipedal robots through various motions to showcase the promise and limits of embodied artificial intelligence at what was billed as the first-ever World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing. The robotic participants came in all shapes, sizes and structures and competed in 26 different sports events ranging from running to kick