In China, the first half marathon took place in which the robots participated in addition to people
Not all robots have finished the race.
Beijing. In China, a half marathon was held on Sunday, which was also attended by robots in addition to people, writes AFP. She is the first one sports an event of this type in the world. Not all humanoid robots managed to complete the race.
Twenty-one humanoid robots ran with thousands of other meat and blood runners 21-kilometers long race in the Beijing technology zone of E-Town.
Some of the robots have taken a self -confident attitude at the start, others showed some embarrassment. One little Android fell, but after a few minutes he lifted himself.
Another reminiscent of a robot from the Transformers movie series, he drew out from the track and crashed into the roadblocks.
The BBC race was finally won by Humanoid Tiangong Ultra, who ran a half marathon in two hours, 40 minutes and 42 seconds.
The Chinese authorities presented the event as another opportunity to move the development of these bi -legged machines forward. However, it is also an AFP, according to AFP, how Beijing can show its progress in the latest technology.
The aim of the half marathon was to test the performance of robots and their reliability. The priority was then that the machines were to the end of the track, the Chinese engineers said AFP.
According to 28-year-old Cchuija Wen-Chaa from the Chinese company Noetix Robotics, Sunday cross-country races was a great stimulus for the entire robotic sector « .
Developers could thus test the performance of batteries or the correctness of the algorithms that the robots control.
