Humanoid robot ‘Lightning’ breaks half marathon record

An autonomous crimson robot called 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 2 hours and 40 minutes. like Reuters According to reports, Du Xiaodi, one of the engineers who developed Lightning at smartphone company Honor, said the robot “has been in development for a year, equipped with 90- to 95-cm (35- to 37-inch) legs to mimic elite human runners and the liquid cooling technology used in its smartphones.”

Not only did Lightning win the half marathon, beating all 12,000 human runners, he also beat… Human world record 57 minutes and 20 seconds recorded by Ugandan runner Jacob Kiplimo.

in Last year’s raceOnly six out of 21 robots ever completed the half marathon, and they didn’t come close to winning. A total of 300 robots from 102 robot teams This year, 47 teams competed in the race, including 18 teams that used self-driving robots, and 29 teams that relied on remote control.

The fastest human runner this year finished nearly twenty minutes behind Lightning, with a time of one hour, seven minutes and 47 seconds, but no human made the podium. The three fastest runners They were all lightning robots.

According to news agencyThe robots that took second and third place were other autonomous Lightning models that finished the race in times of 51 minutes and 53 minutes, respectively. There was also the remote-controlled Lightning which had the fastest time overall at 48 minutes and 19 seconds, but the Chinese port Global Times He says that due to how race results were weighted for the different classes, the standalone version of Lightning was given first place.