They can already carry the shopping, cook and clean. Now they can run and win half marathons.
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In perhaps the most unusual spectacle ever seen at the end of the 21.1km (13.1-mile) race, robots flew over the finish line ahead of the humans for the first time in Beijing on Sunday. And there wasn’t a bead of sweat in sight.
While the living, breathing humans collapsed in a familiar heap on the ground, red-faced, clad in silver foil blankets and fantasising about a long lunch, the humanoids stood tall and unscathed.
The machine that won the race in Beijing also eclipsed the human world record, set last month.
Lightning, made by Honor, a Chinese smartphone maker, completed the half marathon in 50min 26sec, according to a WeChat post by the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area, also known as E-Town, where the race kicked off.
That was several minutes faster than the human world record-holder, Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo, who finished the same distance in 57min 20sec in March in Lisbon.
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