{"id":211864,"date":"2025-04-19T17:05:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T22:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/chinese-robots-ran-against-humans-in-the-worlds-first-humanoid-half-marathon-they-lost-by-a-mile"},"modified":"2025-04-19T17:05:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T22:05:49","slug":"chinese-robots-ran-against-humans-in-the-worlds-first-humanoid-half-marathon-they-lost-by-a-mile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/chinese-robots-ran-against-humans-in-the-worlds-first-humanoid-half-marathon-they-lost-by-a-mile","title":{"rendered":"Chinese robots ran against humans in the world\u2019s first humanoid half-marathon. They lost by a mile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinese-robots-ran-against-humans-in-the-worlds-first-humanoid-half-marathon-they-lost-by-a-mile.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>More than 20 two-legged robots competed in the world\u2019s first humanoid half-marathon in China on Saturday, and \u2013 though technologically impressive \u2013 they were far from outrunning their human masters over the long distance.<\/p>\n<p>Teams from several companies and universities took part in the race, a showcase of China\u2019s advances on humanoid technology as it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/03\/25\/tech\/china-robots-market-competitiveness-intl-hnk\/index.html\">plays catch-up with the US<\/a>, which still boasts the more sophisticated models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. More than 20 two-legged robots competed in the world\u2019s first humanoid half-marathon in China on Saturday, and \u2013 though technologically impressive \u2013 they were far from outrunning their human [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}