Social RoboticsTiangong Ultra wins the first humanoid robot half marathon in Beijing
Twenty-one humanoids ran alongside thousands of people in Beijing's Yizhuang district, with the winner finishing in about two hours forty minutes.
Beijing staged what was billed as the first half marathon for humanoid robots, with 21 machines running a 21 km course next to human runners. Tiangong Ultra, from the Beijing Innovation Center of Human Robotics, came first in roughly two hours and 40 minutes. The race was a public spectacle that put humanoids in close proximity to crowds, and it exposed the reliability limits of current designs as many robots struggled to finish. It also underlined China's push to make humanoid robotics a showcase industry.
Source: China Daily Hong Kong
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