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Robot runners beat humans in Beijing half-marathon (www.dw.com)
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Shandian completed the 21-kilometer (around 13-mile) course in Beijing's Yizhuang district with a time of 50:26, while Lightning achieved a time of 48:19.

Both times were faster than the human record for the distance set by Uganda's Jacob Kiplimo, who ran a time of 57:20 at the Lisbon Half Marathon in March.

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[โ€“] hperrin@lemmy.ca 27 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Well, yeah. And a car can too.

[โ€“] etherphon@piefed.world 13 points 15 hours ago

Yea man this is some real dumb shit lol, I think we established machines were faster a bit ago, and wheels are by far a more economical conveyance. They just wanna build sex bots I swear to god.