Robot runners beat humans in Beijing half-marathon
Shandian completed the 21-kilometer (around 13-mile) course in Beijing's Yizhuang district with a time of 50:26, while Lightning achieved a time of 48:19.
Both times were faster than the human record for the distance set by Uganda's Jacob Kiplimo, who ran a time of 57:20 at the Lisbon Half Marathon in March.
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Meanwhile the us is building a ballroom and fucking up the rest of the world.
Trump trying to build coal burning robots
Inadvertent MAGA steampunk.
China is still an Orwellian dream. Just a more serious one.
He’s building a nuclear bunker under the ballroom.
There is definitely already a nuclear bunker in the white house. Maybe it wasn't gold enough for him.
I'd read somewhere that it had needed upgrading for some time, but I'm thinking trump might actually need it with the kind of stuff he's doing right now.
Well, yeah. And a car can too.
No shit? Machines don't get tired.
Shows the battery packs can last - that's something. I remember when the Boston dynamics bots needed to be wired
They have internal combustion engines for power. Would be interesting what power source they brought.
I cannot think of a non-hostile application for this.
Like who tf cares that a machine can run a marathon? The only reason marathons are a thing is because they are difficult for humans to do, and the ones who do display a feat of perseverance.
We’ve had self-propelled vehicles for hundreds of years that are way more efficient, so it’s not about transportation. The only practical application I can think of is to make robots that can chase down humans.
It's for showing off the engineering. Lots of robotics competitions focus on different things (throwing balls, kicking soccer balls, moving fast), but BattleBots is definitely the one I'd be most worried about advancing a dangerous line of killer tech.
A humanoid bipedal foot race shows off balance, speed, power efficiency, and things like that.
I mean the robot is cool, but the human runner beat the world record by 7 minutes??? That is insane!
Shandian and Lightning are both robots. One was autonomous and one was remote controlled.
The article doesn't mention anything about the times run by humans.
Whoops! My reading comprehension is garbage lately
Great, so both four- and two-legged versions are faster than humans.
What.for.
last year was a disaster,they have improved ! and wow, the battery life.
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