China’s humanoid robot half marathon showed real gains in speed and autonomy, even if the race still revealed clear technical limits.
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Robots are coming

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Move aside mouth-breathers, an autonomous humanoid robot has bettered human runners at the Beijing Half Marathon by clocking ...
A humanoid robot ran a half marathon faster than the fastest human. Here’s what happened when machines hit the track.
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