China's inaugural 'Robotic Olmypics' delivers spectacular feats and disastrous falls

The primary-ever World Humanoid Robot Games have come to an in depth with some new world information, however don't count on them to beat people in a 100-meter sprint any time quickly. The three-day robotics occasion in Beijing, China that noticed humanoid robots compete in the whole lot from boxing to cleansing concluded this weekend. In response to the World Humanoid Robotic Video games, greater than 280 groups from 16 international locations, together with the US, Germany, Brazil and the host nation, entered their robots into the occasion.

A majority of the groups got here from universities, however a number of groups got here from established robotics corporations like Unitree and Fournier Intelligence. A whole bunch of robots competed in conventional sporting occasions like working, soccer and desk tennis, together with occasions for extra sensible duties, like cleansing or sorting medication. Unitree snagged gold medals in 4 classes, together with the 1,500-meter, 400-meter, 100-meter, and 4×100-meter sprint occasions. In response to Unitree, the quickest velocity achieved by one in every of its robots through the occasion was 4.78 m/s, which is roughly 10 mph.

Within the 100-meter dash, Unitree boasted a 33.71-second time, however that's nowhere close to the world document holder Usain Bolt's time of 9.58 seconds, which was achieved in 2009. As an alternative, most groups took this occasion as a possibility to showcase the talents of their designs, whereas additionally stress-testing their robots in a aggressive atmosphere. We're nonetheless a good distance from widespread adoption of those humanoid bots although, particularly if they will't avoid running into each other.

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