The stumbling and high temperature, most human robots fail to end half of the marathon in Beijing

Verne says capabilities like dance can be fun and varied, but they do not actually show the benefit of human robots in the positions of the real world. Even the ability to run half a marathon is not a very useful standard for their skills – it does not seem to be a market demand for robots that can compete with human contestants. The criteria that Vern says to him is the extent of their ability to deal with tasks in the real world without human instructions step by step. “But I expect to see China this year to focus more on doing useful things, because people will get bored of dance and karate,” says Verne.

The robots that participated in the race came in a variety of shapes. The shortest one was only 2 feet and 5 inches. Blue and white sporting and waving spectators every few seconds, perhaps this is the favorite crowd. The longest, five feet nine -inch, was the winner of Tiangong Ultra.

What all robots participate in that they are two -dimensional instead of running on wheels, which is a condition for participating in the race. As long as the robots have fulfilled this demand, they were free to creativity, and the companies behind them adopted a wide range of strategies to try to obtain an advantage over their competitors. Some were wearing children’s sizes (although their thickness of their pedals to avoid falling). Others are equipped with knee pillows to protect their sensitive parts from damage when they fall. Most of the robots had removed their fingers, some of which were missing heads – do not need such parts to run, after all, and reduce them from the weight of the robot and the amount of the burden placed on their engines.

Tiangong Ultra and another model, N2 Robot, which was created by the Chinese company Noetix Robotics, which won second place in the race, because of its consistent pace, albeit slow. The performance of other humanity was mostly catastrophic. One of the robots called Huanhuan, which has a human-like head, not only moved at a snail for a few minutes while he shook his head undeliated-as if he could fall at any time.

Another robot named Shennong looks like the real Frankstein monster, with the head that looks like Gundam and four drones they face back. He sits on the basis with eight wheels, and it is not clear how this was not unqualified. But this was not even the biggest problem for Linong, as the robot revolves immediately in two circles after they set out from the starting line, hit the wall, and withdrawing its human operators. It was painful to see.

The adhesive tape has proven to be the most effective problem solving tool. The accompanying people did not make temporary robot shoes with adhesive tape, but also used them to adhere to a robot head again on his body after they fell over and over again during running, making some scenes very exciting.

Each robot had human operators, often compatible with them. Some of the control panels that allowed them to give robot instructions, including how quickly go, while other operators led the road to their robot and tried to wipe potential obstacles on the ground. Quite a few people are apparently held, well, pets resistant. “You want to think about these robots that resemble a remote control car through the race, but robots do not contain wheels,” says Verne.