Humans and humanoid robots race in Beijing's half-marathon in world first

China's first Embodied Artificial Intelligence Robot Games kick off

China's first-ever Embodied Artificial Intelligence Robot Games – an event spotlighting cutting-edge developments in robotics and artificial intelligence – kicks off on Wednesday in Wuxi in Jiangsu Province.

China's robots race against humans — and their U.S. counterparts

Twenty-one humanoid robots competed alongside people in a half-marathon in Beijing, stoking national pride in China amid its intensifying tech rivalry with the U.S.

The Chinese government is further promoting the development of artificial intelligence and robots this year as it seeks to boost its economy and face growing technological rivalry with the United States.

For a human animal developed in chronic energy poverty, the waste of energy and time that comes with sport paradoxically generates despair. Based on the latest research, it seems that people also want to offer this to their hitherto soulless tools, states Kristjan Port in the R2 tech commentary.

Robots race humans for 1st time in world debut of humanoid half-marathon - National

While the 12,000 human participants followed conventional rules and needed to stop at water stations, the 21 machine 'runners' needed battery swap pit stops.

Humanoid Robots Raced Against Humans In A Half-Marathon For The First Time Ever, Didn't Do Great

Robot-running-race-on-track Twenty-one humanoid robots raced against humans for the first time ever in the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing on Saturday. Some of them didn’t fare very well. The rules for the humanoid robots to gain entry into the race were pretty simple: resemble a human (this rule was enforced very liberally) and be able to walk or run (no wheels allowed). The size of the humanoid robots that competed ranged from 3-feet, 9-inch…