A robot carried the Olympic torch in South Korea

Robots are coming for the Olympics. On Monday, the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology's humanoid robot, HUBO, carried the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympics relay torch during a stretch in Daejon, South Korea. HUBO – decked out in an Olympic beanie -- received the torch from Professor Dennis Hong, the founding director of the Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory at UCLA. The 47-inch tall robot then walked about 500 feet to a wooden wall where it used the drill on its arm to cut a hole and then punched through to pass the flame to its creator, Professor Oh Jun-ho. Jun-ho then passed the torch to KAIST's latest robot, FX-2.