It seems that humanoid robots still have a long way to go before recovering human runners.
Beijing E-Town Tech Hub hosted the one he described as the first half-human marathon in Saturday’s world, with 21 am-competing humanoid robots together with thousands of humans.
Bloomberg reports that the winning robot, Tiangong Ultra, was built by the research institute supported by the X-Umanoid government and finished the race in two hours and 40 minutes. This would not be an impressive moment for a human being: the winning male runner of the race ended in an hour and two minutes, and it is normal that the random runners complete a half marathon in (BRAG NOTICE) in two hours.
Tiangong Ultra needed human assistance to win, in particular a human being who runs forward with a reporting device on the back, allowing the robot to imitate his movements. (Most of the other robots were controlled remotely, with human operators running next to them.)
Each other robot needed at least three hours to complete the race and only four robots in total managed to finish before the four -hour cut, according to Bloomberg. Some robots barely exceeded the starting line – for example, Shennong sparked a human support runner, so he slammed into a fence and infected. At a certain point, the small giant (the shortest competitor, at 30 inches in height), stopped while the smoke emerged from his head.
Beijing’s Humanoid E-Town Robot Marathon had robots built by Chinese companies, as well as groups of students. (The Unitree G1 robot fell on the starting line, but the company said that a customer had used the robot without his algorithms.)
To compete, the robots had to have a humanoid appearance and run on two legs. They ran in a separate lane and fenced by humans, with staggered start times to reduce the risk of running each other. Battery changes were allowed (the Ultra Tiangong battery has been modified three times) and replacement robots could even be exchanged with a time penalty.
Tang Jiang, Chief Technology Officer of X-Humanoid, said to Reuters: “” I don’t want to boast, but I think no other robotics club in the West has combined the sporting results of Tiangong “.
