Robots vs humans: Beijing half-marathon delivers stunning result

[malaise]

[Escape]

1. Cars and motorcycles can outrun humans too.

Nothing new here.

[LisaL]

2. Exactly.

A robot doesn't get tired.

[Blue Full Moon]

7. Why corporations want them.

No sick days. No vacation. The thing the idiots haven't figured out yet. Who's going to be able to buy their garbage? Robots don't eat hamburgers. Tax the robots and AI and everyone gets a living wage.

[Kid Berwyn]

3. Xi planning for the future.

“They don’t die. They don’t retreat.”

[edhopper]

4. bipedal Robots

are a bad design. Need way too much tech just to stay upright. There is no work function they would do that needs them to be humanoid.

Yeah, yeah sexbots.

[Johnny2X2X]

5. 100%

I think making bipedal robots is more a public relations/advertising type endeavor. “Look, we can make things that are like humans.” But there are tens of millions of robots working in factories around the world and very few look anything like a human being. It’s just not a very useful form, it’s unnecessarily complicated for 99% of the tasks we might want a robot for.

[edhopper]

6. For an independent robot that accomplishes various tasks

four legs, three arms and 360 viewing would be much more optimum.

[Johnny2X2X]

8. And bipedal is a waste of processing power.

Takes an incredible amount of processing power to calculate balance. That computing power can be used for the tasks robots are doing rather than just standing up.

[LudwigPastorius]

9. Not every clanker gave a stellar performance.