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The race is on between robots and humans
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
|June 2025
Twenty-one robots competed against human runners in the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing, China in April.
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It is the first time that robots have attempted to run a 13-mile race alongside humans. The robots had to look like humans and be able to run or walk (no wheels were allowed). The bots ranged in height from 180 centimetres
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