Well, yeah. And a car can too.
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Meanwhile the us is building a ballroom and fucking up the rest of the world.
I cannot think of a non-hostile application for this.
Like who tf cares that a machine can run a marathon? The only reason marathons are a thing is because they are difficult for humans to do, and the ones who do display a feat of perseverance.
We’ve had self-propelled vehicles for hundreds of years that are way more efficient, so it’s not about transportation. The only practical application I can think of is to make robots that can chase down humans.
It's for showing off the engineering. Lots of robotics competitions focus on different things (throwing balls, kicking soccer balls, moving fast), but BattleBots is definitely the one I'd be most worried about advancing a dangerous line of killer tech.
A humanoid bipedal foot race shows off balance, speed, power efficiency, and things like that.
No shit? Machines don't get tired.
Shows the battery packs can last - that's something. I remember when the Boston dynamics bots needed to be wired
I mean the robot is cool, but the human runner beat the world record by 7 minutes??? That is insane!
Shandian and Lightning are both robots. One was autonomous and one was remote controlled.
The article doesn't mention anything about the times run by humans.
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