| ▲ | Humanoid robots beat human records in the 100m, half-marathon, and high jump(reuters.com) | |||||||||||||
| 10 points by tazlor 19 hours ago | 9 comments | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | tazlor 19 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||
And also the 400m and 1500m. In the 100-meter sprint, a humanoid robot achieved a result of 9.39 seconds, beating the human record of 9.58 seconds set by Jamaica's Bolt in 2009. In a standing high jump [note: no running start or fosbury flop], a humanoid robot was able to reach 2.88 meters, well above the 0.95-meter best result by a humanoid in last year's first edition of the games. It surpassed the human high jump record of 2.45 meters set by Cuba's Javier Sotomayor in 1993. Both robots were from Beijing-based X-Humanoid. Before the opening, a humanoid robot from Chinese smartphone company Honor completed a 100-meter sprint in a record of 9.32 seconds during a trial of the games, the company said, at a peak speed of 14.5 meters per second. Video of 400m and 1500m: https://v.redd.it/711tzveka5lh1 Video of high jump: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoqG2wlzRAM | ||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | newsicanuse 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||
What a buffoonery of a comparision. | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | urbandw311er 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||
I mean, a motor car can beat me in the hundred meters too. Or an e-bike. Or a drone. What’s the big deal here? | ||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | totallygeeky 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||
I don't understand why we're supposed to be impressed by these achievements. We've made mechanical things that can outdo humans for decades, putting it into the form factor of humanoid does nothing for it. | ||||||||||||||
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