Despite the seemingly negative headline, this is an incredible feat of engineering.
More than 20 two-legged robots competed in the world’s first humanoid half-marathon in China on Saturday […] The first robot across the finish line, Tiangong Ultra – created by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center – finished the route in two hours and 40 minutes.
That last statement is much more important—not the attention-grabbing headline that the robots didn’t win against their human opponents:
Alan Fern, professor of computer sciences, AI and robotics at Oregon State University, told CNN he was 'actually very impressed' that the robots managed within the time limit, saying he 'would have bet that none of them would finish.'
