{"id":235632,"date":"2026-04-20T23:01:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T04:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/a-humanoid-robot-sprints-past-the-human-half-marathon-world-record-in-beijing-race"},"modified":"2026-04-20T23:01:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T04:01:31","slug":"a-humanoid-robot-sprints-past-the-human-half-marathon-world-record-in-beijing-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/a-humanoid-robot-sprints-past-the-human-half-marathon-world-record-in-beijing-race","title":{"rendered":"A humanoid robot sprints past the human half-marathon world record in Beijing race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-humanoid-robot-sprints-past-the-human-half-marathon-world-record-in-beijing-race.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The winner from Honor, a Chinese smartphone maker, completed the 21-kilometer (13-mile) race in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, according to a WeChat post by the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area, also known as Beijing E-Town, where the race kicked off.<\/p>\n<p>That was faster than the human world record holder, Uganda\u2019s Jacob Kiplimo, who finished the same distance in about 57 minutes in March at the Lisbon road race.<\/p>\n<p>The performance by the robot marked a significant step forward from last year\u2019s inaugural race, during which the winning robot finished in 2 hours, 40 minutes and 42 seconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The winner from Honor, a Chinese smartphone maker, completed the 21-kilometer (13-mile) race in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, according to a WeChat post by the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area, also known as Beijing E-Town, where the race kicked off. That was faster than the human world record holder, Uganda\u2019s Jacob Kiplimo, who finished the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235632","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}