“This race is a beginning”

For the first time in history, a robot was able to finish the half -marathon in a real urban environment. This is Tiankong.

With a height of 1.80 meters and light texture, long legs and their joints are designed with advanced refrigeration, and with previous experience in a test last November “Breum Runner” He toured the speed of seven to eight kilometers per hour at 21 km / hAs his team announced at the end of the competition.

However, the challenge was not entirely autonomous because he had to change the battery in three cases – something allowed by the racing rules – and the energy fell once for the failure. “But we didn’t change it. We continued to change the battery,” said Humanoid’s technical director Dong Jian. “We had three goals: win, finish the race with a robot and end in three hours”.

Tiankong has been trained Reinforced hue learning using the data of real human athletes To adjust its progress to different lands. Its developers believe that in the future, it can handle even moving objects while running.

“This race is a beginning”The organizer of the event, Liu Li, the Deputy Director of the Economic Technology District of the Economic Technology District (PTA), said that its goal was “a part of Robotics” and that this scene was “a place of proven if it was possible.”

This is the race

The credentials in the Chinese capital started with A Astray: Tiankong first left, followed by the Noidx’s N2 N2 Robot, which competed with two versions of the N2, one of the other human parameters and the second and third place, the Droit, lead three matches.

In the race, the “most human” n2 managed in the fourth place There was a place for strategy and surprise even between the machines.

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In spite of the number of registered numbers, Were able to maintain only three or four prolonged parade: The majority of people who are real competitors in this type of trials have not yet developed because many have been proven by retiring a few meters from the output line.

In the male category, Kenya Macchalbe Alhamis did 1 hour, 6 minutes 32 seconds, and in the woman, China Ban Yuvanngeng did so in 1 hour, 19 minutes and 1 second. Both, with Benefit for more than one hour than the winning robotThis reflects, for now, the human biomechanics are much more than the speed and autonomy.

Sample of Chinese technology development

The phenomenon also served as a platform for the development of the Chinese technology industry, which recorded the rhythm of the race from Xiomi’s air or electric cars. “It is a serious examination Evaluate hardware and software reliability“Humanoid’s general director, Xyong Yujun.” Our goal is that these robots in the future work without failures in dangerous situations for humans, ”he added.

Nevertheless, looking at the 1.80 -meter humanitarian Zaking with Beijing routes, on a path parallel to the human corridors, many participants had the opportunity to take pictures as they passed.