It looks like humanoid robots have a long way to go before catching up with human runners.
Beijing’s e-five tech hub host
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. This would not be an impressive time for a human-the race’s winning male runner finished in one hour and two minutes, and it’s Normal for Casual Runners to Complete A Half-Marathan Inn Under two hours,
Tiangong Ultra Needed Human Assistance to Win – Specifically a Human Who Ran Ahead with a signaling device on his back, enabling the robot to imitate his movements. (Most other robots were remote controlled, with human operators running beeside them.)
Every other robot needed at least three hours to complete the race, and only four robots in total managed to Finish ahead of the four-heart cutoff time, According to bloombergSome Robots Barely Made It Past The Starting Line – For Example, Shenong Tripped a human support runnerThen slammed into a fence and shattered. At one point, Little Giant (The Shortest Competitor, at 30 inches in height), paiused as smoke emerged from its head.
The beijing e-ton humanoid Robot half marathon featured robots built by chinese companies, as well as students. (Unitree’s G1 Robot Fell at the starting line, but the company said a client haded the robot with its algorithms.)
In order to compe, robots needed to have a humanoid appearance and run on two legs. They ran in a separe, finger-off lane from the humans, with staggered start time to reduce the risk that they’d run into my Battery changes were allowed (Tiangong Ultra’s battery was Changed Three Times), and Substitute Robots Cold even be swapped in with a time penalty.
X-Humanoid’s Chief Technology Officer Tang Jiang told reates.