Beijing’s Humanoid Robot Marathon
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China’s humanoid robot half marathon showed real gains in speed and autonomy, even if the race still revealed clear technical limits.
The feat occurred at an even in Beijing that pitted robots against human runners. The humanoid robotics market is on the rise and could reach 1 billion machines by 2050. A 5′ 5″ bipedal robot named Lightning just crushed the human world record time for running a half marathon,
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