Eight-year-old Alodi Mourier wasn't sure what to expect yesterday at the San Francisco Exploratorium. Sumo wrestling -- with robots? That's what Alodi thought when she sat ringside waiting for Japan's ...

While some may be quick to dismiss the sport of sumo as a couple of fat fellas slapping each other about on a sandy floor, watch just a few bouts and you’ll soon come to appreciate the level of skill, ...

NEW YORK CITY—Say what you will about speed and power—it was TaeTay’s elegant spin moves that allowed the shoebox-size robot to slam its way to victory at the robot sumo tournament here in New York ...

Aug. 29 sees the 22nd All Japan Robot Sumo Tournament kicking off with the Tohoku playoffs in Akita. The tournament is an opportunity for Japan's amateur robot enthusiasts to show off their skills, as ...

is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. If you haven’t seen robot sumo wrestling before, then you’re in for a treat. Trust me. Most robot versions of ...

If you have ever seen the show "Battlebots" that airs in the US, you know that most of the robots used are set on destroying the competition literally rather than simply pushing them out of the ring.

NEW YORK—For the past ten years, professor Brian Cusack has been teaching robot design and construction to science and engineering students at Cooper Union. The mechatronics class is an intense, ...

The battle is on for a bunch of sumo-wrestling Lego robots built and programmed by 100 elementary school girls from Surrey, B.C. The robots, equipped with ultrasonic sensors, are part of a spring ...