{"id":40046,"date":"2025-04-22T15:52:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T19:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=40046"},"modified":"2025-04-22T15:52:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T19:52:34","slug":"no-sweat-humanoid-robots-run-a-chinese-half-marathon-alongside-flesh-and-blood-competitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=40046","title":{"rendered":"No sweat: Humanoid robots run a Chinese half-marathon alongside flesh-and-blood competitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/46bff88\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/8141x5427+0+0\/resize\/599x399!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F7b%2F03%2Fb803eca73be3ba3fa24491aea0d8%2F9d47d1f0f21a4177b3ce66171036e982\" alt=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"204\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">In one small step for robot-kind \u2014 thousands of them, really \u2014 humanoid robots ran alongside actual humans in a half-marathon in the Chinese capital. The bipedal robots of various makes and sizes navigated the 13.1-mile course on Saturday supported by teams of human navigators, operators, and engineers, in what event organizers say was a first.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/china-robot-half-marathon-153c6823bd628625106ed26267874d21\">No sweat: Humanoid robots run a Chinese half-marathon alongside flesh-and-blood competitors<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one small step for robot-kind \u2014 thousands of them, really \u2014&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[150,36,318,2117],"class_list":["post-40046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-china","tag-robotics","tag-robots","tag-running","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40048,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40046\/revisions\/40048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}