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Robots run a half-marathon, slowly
It looks like humanoid robots have a long way to go before catching up with human runners. Beijing’s E-Town tech hub hosted what it described as the first
Bloomberg reports that the winning robot, Tiangong Ultra, was built by the government-backed research institute X-Humanoid and finished the race in two hours and 40 minutes. Some robots barely made it past the starting line — for example, Shennong tripped a human support runner, then slammed into a fence and shattered. X-Humanoid’s Chief Technology Officer Tang Jiang told Reuters, “”I don’t want to boast but I think no other robotics firms in the West have matched Tiangong’s sporting achievements.”
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