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It looks like humanoid robots have a recollective path to go before catching up with human offset .
Beijing ’s E - Town tech hub hosted what it described as the humanity ’s first humanoid half - marathon on Saturday , with 21 humanoid robots contend alongside thousands of humans .
Bloomberg reportsthat the winning robot , Tiangong Ultra , was built by the administration - backed research institute X - Humanoid and finished the raceway in two time of day and 40 minutes . This would not be an impressive time for a human being — the race ’s win male moon-curser finished in one hour and two min , and it ’s normal for casual runners to complete a half - marathon in ( boast alert)under two hours .
Tiangong Ultra needed human aid to deliver the goods — specifically a human who ran ahead with a signaling twist on his back , activate the robot to imitate his movements . ( Most other golem were remote controlled , with human operators running beside them . )
Tiangong robot won the Beijing half battle of Marathon with a time of 2 hours 40 minutes – more than twice the time of the men ’s race winner . The robot is build by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center.https://t.co/0QGcEOeTpppic.twitter.com/dVnYx2uZ5A
Every other robot needed at least three hour to complete the race , and only four automaton in amount handle to finish ahead of the four - hr crosscut clip , according to Bloomberg . Some automaton barely made it past the starting job — for example , Shennongtripped a human support runner , then slammed into a fencing and shattered . At one point , Little Giant ( the inadequate competitor , at 30 inches in height ) , paused as smoke emerge from its head .
The Beijing E - Town Humanoid Robot Half Marathon featured robots built by Chinese companies , as well as scholarly person groups . ( Unitree ’s G1 robot fell at the starting production line , but the company read a client had used the automaton without its algorithms . )
In guild to compete , automaton necessitate to have a humanoid appearance and range on two branch . They ran in a disjoined , palisade - off lane from the world , with staggered starting line time to reduce the risk that they ’d range into each other . Battery change were appropriate ( Tiangong Ultra ’s battery was changed three times ) , and substitute golem could even be swapped in with a time penalisation .
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X - Humanoid ’s primary technology officer Tang Jiangtold Reuters , “ I do n’t need to brag but I think no other robotics firms in the West have matched Tiangong ’s sporting achievements . ”
