If the idea of robots taking on humans in a road race conjures dystopian images of android athletic supremacy, then fear not, for now at least.
Robots kind of suck compared to humans in terms of energy efficiency, sure a factory robot arm can crush you but if it had to run on the electricity equivelent of a bowl of bran flakes you could overpower it with one hand and not much effort. (barring an insane gear ratio which would make the thing incredibly slow)
Thank goodness John Henry has taught us Americans that machines will never beat humans, so we obviously know how this will end. /s
Yeah, lets try again in about 5 years.
The first robot across the finish line, Tiangong Ultra – created by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center – finished the route in two hours and 40 minutes.
The winner of the men’s race on Saturday finished in 1 hour and 2 minutes.
What a misleading headline. This was a 13 mile race. The robots lost by about 8 miles.
I’m amazed they made it the whole way. Still impressive.
Some didn’t make it. Like the Pony Express, they swapped horses.
Companies were also allowed to swap their androids with substitutes when they could no longer compete
this means they can catch the average person
That’s still faster than me though…
