Over 500 robots competed in soccer, boxing, and running. In many cases, gravity was the real winner. This week, China’s leading robotics minds gathered in Beijing for a hotly-anticipated, Olympics-style event dubbed the world’s first “ Humanoid Robot Games. ”

Humanoid robots danced hip-hop, performed martial arts and played keyboard, guitar and drums at the opening ceremony of the first World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on Thursday evening.

In a wave of new products and software characterized as an “artificial-intelligence comeback,” Apple appears to be jumping into about a half-dozen new industries at once. There’s a “tabletop robot that serves as a virtual companion” and looks like “an iPad mounted on a movable limb that can swivel and reposition itself to follow users in a room,

Roboticists in China have developed a life-sized, furry, AI-enabled antelope designed to monitor the migration patterns of its real-life counterpart. This “bionic” antelope is part of a growing arsenal of somewhat convincing-looking robots used to observe wildlife in up close and personal ways human researchers often can’t.

As someone who regularly covers and reviews the best robot lawn mowers, it’s pretty mind-blowing how far the industry has come in just the past year. We’ve seen some incredible models from the likes of Segway and Husqvarna, with plenty of affordable options popping up too. It really is an exciting time to be in the world of automated garden tech.

The AI robotics firm Figure released an impressive video of its humanoid robot, Figure 02, autonomously folding laundry.

A human-sized patrol robot named Parker, meant to record and deter crime in Montgomery County parking garages, was sidelined late last month over privacy and transparency concerns.