Humanoid ‘Lightning’ robot smashes the half-marathon record
An autonomous scarlet robot named "Lightning" finished a 13-mile race in Beijing on Sunday in just 50 minutes and 26 seconds, less than half the time of last year's fastest robot, which took two hours and 40 minutes.
As Reuters reports, Du Xiaodi, one of the engineers who developed Lightning at smartphone company Honor, said […]
Robot sets half-marathon record
- A humanoid robot broke the human world record for a half marathon by seven minutes NBC News —
- Humanoid robot in China beats the human half-marathon world record AP News —
- A Humanoid Robot Set a Half-Marathon Record in China Wired —
- Humanoid ‘Lightning’ robot smashes the half-marathon record The Verge —
- Robot named Lightning blows past human runners to set half-marathon record in Beijing Los Angeles Times —