It seems that humanoid robots have a long way to go before catching up with human runners.
The E-Town technological center in Beijing welcomed what he described as the first humanoid half-marath in the world on Saturday, with 21 humanoid robots in competition alongside thousands of humans.
Bloomberg reports that the winning robot, Tiangong Ultra, was built by the Research Institute supported by the X-Humanoid government and finished the race in two hours and 40 minutes. It would not be an impressive period for a human – the male runner winning the race finished in an hour and two minutes, and it is normal for occasional runners to finish half a marathon in (braking alert) in less than two hours.
Tiangong Ultra needed human aid to win – in particular a human who ran in mind with a signaling device on the back, allowing the robot to imitate its movements. (Most of the other robots were remote -controlled, with human operators flowing next to them.)
All the other robots needed at least three hours to finish the race, and only four robots in total managed to finish before four hours, according to Bloomberg. Some robots barely exceeded the starting line – for example, Shennong tripped a human support runner, then slammed a fence and broken. At one point, few giant (the shortest competitor, 30 inches high), stopped while smoke emerged from his head.
The Humanoid robot robot marathon in the city of Beijing included robots built by Chinese companies, as well as groups of students. (The Robot G1 of UniLee fell on the starting line, but the company said that a customer had used the robot without its algorithms.)
In order to compete, the robots had to have a humanoid appearance and run on two legs. They ran into a separate and closed path of humans, with offbeat start hours to reduce the risk they collide. The battery changes have been authorized (the Tiangong Ultra battery has been changed three times) and the substitution robots could even be exchanged with a time penalty.
X-Humanoid technology director Tang Jiang told Reuters: “” I don’t want to boast, but I think that no other robotics enterprise in the West has equaled the sports achievements of Tiangong. »»
