00:00Robots have outrun people at this year's Beijing Half Marathon, beating the human winners by more than 10 minutes.
00:07The robots raced alongside 12,000 men and women, running in a parallel track to avoid collisions.
00:13The winning machine, developed by Chinese smartphone brand Honor, finished the race in 50 minutes and 26 seconds.
00:20That's several minutes faster than the half marathon world record set by Ugandan runner Jacob Capilimo in Lisbon last month.
00:27Nearly half of the robots ran the 13 mile race autonomously while others were remotely controlled.
00:33The race has highlighted the sector's rapid technological advances and is a stark difference to last year's inaugural human robot
00:40run.
00:41The 2025 competition was riddled with mishaps and most robots were unable to finish.
00:46Last year's winning robot recorded a time of 2 hours 40 minutes, more than double the time of the human
00:52winner of a conventional race.
00:53China has the goal of becoming a powerhouse in this frontier industry.
00:58It has enacted a wide range of policies, from subsidies to infrastructure projects to cultivate local firms.
01:03While economically valuable applications of humanoid robots remain in trial phases,
01:08the marathon underlines their potential to reshape everything from dangerous jobs to combat on the battlefield.
01:13The 20 minutes of the plan was actually reviewed and is also reviewed and maintained at the top of the
01:13battlefield.
01:15The 20 minutes of the plan was to be directed at the school of the
01:15The 20 minutes of the plan was not decided not to be directed until the second possible.
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