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Yeah, I would have thought this was achievable years ago. Is this actually note worthy or just a puff piece.
It's an improvement over prior attempts at bipedal robot joggers, cutting time from the last iteration by about half. If you need a robot to run in an uninterrupted straight line for 13.1 miles, it's big news. But like so much else with robotics, it's another marginal improvement that gets treated as revolutionary! without respect to the question "What are we planning to do with this technology after the race is over?"
You'll notice that the robot is segregated from the human population. No journalist seems to bother to ask why.
In order to ensure it breaks the prior records they had to program it to chainsaw through anything in its path like Doom Guy.
The article mentions:
But that doesn't mean much as it just talking about robots in this specific event. Given that's the greatest accolade they could give, I imagine it's more a publicity stunt.
This is approximately 1/3 the time of the previous robot record, in 1 year. That's quite the jump.