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Humanoid robots show rapid advances as they race past humans in Beijing half-marathon

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CitrixNews Staff
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Humanoid robots show rapid advances as they race past humans in Beijing half-marathon
  • Winning robot records faster time than Jacob Kiplimo’s world record

  • More than 100 robots run in parallel tracks to avoid collisions with humans

Dozens of Chinese-made humanoid robots showed off their fast-improving athleticism as they whizzed past human runners in a half-marathon race in Beijing on Sunday, having lagged far behind a year earlier.

The race’s inaugural edition last year was riddled with mishaps, as many robots struggled to get off the starting line, and most were unable to finish.

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Originally reported by The Guardian