Humanoid ‘Lightning’ robot smashes the half-marathon record

The autonomous “Lightning” robot finished the contention successful nether an hour. | Photo: VCG / Getty Images

An autonomous scarlet robot named "Lightning" finished a 13-mile contention successful Beijing connected Sunday successful conscionable 50 minutes and 26 seconds, little than fractional the clip of past year's fastest robot, which took 2 hours and 40 minutes. As Reuters reports, Du Xiaodi, 1 of the engineers who developed Lightning astatine smartphone institution Honor, said the robot "was successful improvement for a year, fitted with legs 90 to 95 cm (35 to 37 inches) agelong to mimic elite quality runners and liquid cooling exertion utilized successful its smartphones."

Lightning not lone won the half-marathon, beating each 12,000 quality runners, but besides bushed the human satellite record of 57 minutes and 20 seconds …

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