Roboter-Wettkampf: Roboter in China knacken Weltrekorde beim Sprint
Ein Roboter aus China rennt zum Auftakt einer Weltmeisterschaft die 100 Meter schneller als Usain Bolt. Auch auf 400 Metern sind die humanoiden Roboter schneller als jeder Mensch.
Robotics competition in China has shattered human sprint records at the World Humanoid Robot Games, held in Beijing. A humanoid robot completed a 100-meter sprint in just 9.39 seconds, faster than Usain Bolt's world record of 9.58 seconds. The robot also set a new world record for the 400-meter race with a time of 39.70 seconds, surpassing South African Wayde van Niekerk's Olympic record from 2016.
Following the sprint, the robots crashed into a barrier, with a Chinese Honor smartphone manufacturer's robot, named Blitz, setting a new world record for the half-marathon at 50 minutes and 26 seconds. The championship will continue until August 26th, featuring over 660 teams from 16 countries with more than 2,000 robots competing in various disciplines, including long jump, weightlifting, table tennis, football, and everyday tasks like housework, rescue operations, and manufacturing lines.
Robot competitions have been held in China for over a decade, but progress in humanoid robots had been less spectacular until recently. China has designated embodied artificial intelligence as a future industry, attracting significant investment from companies and universities in research and development. Beijing is aiming to reduce technological dependencies on foreign countries and create new growth engines, similar to the rapid rise of hardware and AI companies on the Shanghai stock exchange, such as Unitree, which saw its shares soar 629 percent in its debut.
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