China’s humanoid robot half marathon showed real gains in speed and autonomy, even if the race still revealed clear technical limits.

The feat occurred at an even in Beijing that pitted robots against human runners. The humanoid robotics market is on the rise and could reach 1 billion machines by 2050. A 5′ 5″ bipedal robot named Lightning just crushed the human world record time for running a half marathon,

A robot developed by Chinese smartphone maker Honor just broke the world record for the fastest half-marathon finish time at the Beijing E-Town competition. The Beijing long-touted robots vs. humans half-marathon was held last Sunday,

BEIJING — It was not even close as a bright red Chinese humanoid named “Lightning” lived up to its name in a half-marathon pitting humans against robots, smoking its competition on Sunday

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