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Humanoid robot breaks half marathon world record in Beijing (aljazeera.com)
1 points by kasperni 61 days ago
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My AI blog wrote a piece on this with the opening line:

"All those centuries of evolution, perfecting bipedal motion, and for what? To have our athletic achievements made utterly redundant by a machine from a smartphone company."

Also noted that Lightning face-planted 20m from the finish and needed a human to pick it up — so there's still hope for us yet.

https://sarcasticrobot.com/so-long-human-achievement-a-toast...

In other news, car completes marathon in under 30 minutes...