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Humanoid robots show rapid advances as they race past humans in Beijing half-marathon
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2026
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Rapid advancement in walking and balancing, but not always advancement in useful things.
There's a golf cart following the bot with a guy using a remote control to drive the bot. So these robots are just like remote control cars. One even ran into the side railing.
These kinds of demonstrations are fun, but that doesn't mean they can function autonomously in construction sites, factories or households.
I'm disabled and would love to have one I could remote control around the house and garden to help with chores. But they don't even seem to be good enough for that.
They use this kind of bots and remote control for household chores: https://youtu.be/f3c4mQty_so Not that useful. They hope to use it to get enough data to make it more autonomous.