Says Fern, while capabilities like dancing can be fun and icching, they do not really show how useful humanoid robots are in real -world conditions. Even being able to run a half marathon is not a very useful benchmark for their skills – it is not that there is a market demand for robots that can compete with human runners. The benchmark that Fern has said is how well they can handle the diverse real world functions without step-by-step human instructions. “But I will expect to see China shifting this year to focus more on doing useful things, because people are getting bored with dance and karate,” Fern says.
Robots participating in the race came into various forms. The youngest was only 2 feet and 5 inches long. Sporting a blue and white tracksuit and waving the audience every few seconds, it was probably the crowd. The longest at five feet nine inches, the winner was Tiangong Ultra.
All robots usually have bupy instead of running on wheels, need to participate in the race. As long as the robots met that requirement, they were free to be creative, and the companies behind them adopted a wide range of strategies to try to get a profit on their rivals. Some were wearing a baby -shaped sneakers (although spoiling their paddle to avoid falling). Other people were equipped with knee pads to protect their delicate parts from damage. Most robots had their fingers removed and anything went missing – you do not need such parts to run, after all, and unloading them reduces the weight of the robot and reduces the amount of burden on their motors.
Tiangong Ultra and another model, the N2 robot created by the Chinese company NOTIX Robotics, who finished second in the race, stood out for its consistent, although slow. The performance of other humanoids was mostly disastrous. A robot called Huanaahuan, which has a human-like head, only went to a snail speed for a few minutes, while its head was uncontrollably shaken-as it could fall at any time.
Another robot, named Sheng, looks like a genuine of a real francustein, in which the head looks like a goon and four drone propeller that is backwards. It sits on a foundation with eight wheels, and it is not clear how unqualified alone. But this was also not the biggest problem of Shengong, as the robot immediately turned into two circles and turned away from the initial line, collided with the wall, and pulled down its human operators with it. It was painful to see this.
Duct tape proved to be the most effective problem-solution tool. Not only humans made mekshift robot shoes with duct tape, they used it back to their bodies to follow the head of a robot, as it repeatedly fell during the run, for some very disgusting scenes.
Each robot consisted of human operators, often two or three walk next to them. Some held control panels, which allowed them to give robot instructions, which involves how fast learn, while other operators made way for their robots and tried to clean the potential obstacles on the ground. There was a lot of humanoids what was being seen, well, like pets. “You want to think about these robots such as running a remote control car through the race. But the robot does not have wheels,” Fern says.
