A Humanoid Robot Set a Half-Marathon Record in China

An autonomous robot from the company Honor ran a half marathon in 50:26, beating the human record by 7 minutes.

In a race between humans and robots, machines take the victory in a sign of advancements

BEIJING — It was not even close as a bright red Chinese humanoid named “Lightning” lived up to its name in a half-marathon ...
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Chinese Humanoid Robot ‘Lightning’ Outruns Humans, Sets New World Record

A humanoid robot beat the human world record at the Beijing half marathon, signaling rapid advances in robotics, speed, and ...

Humanoid robots race past humans in Beijing half-marathon, showing rapid advances

The Beijing half-marathon race record time for a humanoid robot of 50 minutes 26 seconds is almost two hours quicker than the ...
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Robot smashes human record in half-marathon – as another self-destructed

The era of us laughing at humanoids playing sport may now be behind us – for the most part – as a field of robots competing ...

This humanoid robot can almost run as fast as a human sprinter

The demonstration centers on a controlled track test in which the robot passes a speed-measurement device at peak velocity.
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Advanced Robot Is Learning How To Better Mimic Human Facial Movements By Watching YouTube And Observing Itself In The Mi...

I'm not sure I want robots to be able to mimic humans like this.

A Chinese android just ran a half-marathon faster than any human ever

They were trailing behind their human rivals a year ago. But on Sunday, an android outpaced the entire field to run a ...

A humanoid robot just ran a half-marathon faster than any human.

It finished the 21.1-mile race in 50 minutes and 26 seconds. The world record was set just a month ago by Jacob Kiplimo, at 57 minutes and 20 seconds. More impressively, when this race was held last ...