This is Beijing 2025, and man vs machine has just become a literal footrace. As the announcers counted down, humans stood shoulder to shoulder with their robot counterparts ... people ran the Beijing ...

China pitted humanoid robots against humans in a half-marathon for the first time ... A few robots crashed mid-way during the race. The winning robot, Tiangong Ultra, finished in 2 hours and 40 ...

(If you can remember the earlier episodes of the great TV programme that was Robot ... the men’s and women’s winners, who are both humans from Ethiopia, covered the same half marathon course ...

It's being considered the world's first humanoid robot half marathon, as machines versus man raced to the finish line. NBC News' Janis Mackey Frayer explains. April 23, 2025 ...

It managed to complete the half-marathon in two hours and forty minutes, well behind the winner of the men’s race whose ... and algorithm that allows the robot to imitate how humans run a ...

(If you can remember the earlier episodes of the great TV programme that was Robot Wars ... For context, the men’s and women’s winners, who are both humans from Ethiopia, covered the same half ...

Tiangong robot won the Beijing half marathon with a time of 2 hours 40 minutes - more than twice the time of the men's race winner. The robot is built by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center.

Sometimes they even replaced the whole robot with a new one ... That’s more than an hour and a half behind the winner of the men’s race, who completed it in 1 hour and 2 minutes, but still ...

In what was billed as the world’s first half-marathon for androids ... ALSO READ: Operation rescue teams increasingly relying on robots in disaster zones The man-versus-machine competition was ...

Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands of runners at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing today ... One company boasted that its robot looked almost human, with feminine features.

Among 20 competing teams, Tiangong Ultra from the Tiangong Team won the race among the robots with a timing of two hours 40 minutes, slower than over an hour and two minutes clocked by Elias Desta of ...