{"id":3045,"date":"2026-04-21T06:56:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T06:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=3045"},"modified":"2026-04-21T06:56:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T06:56:23","slug":"when-the-half-marathon-world-record-is-broken-by-a-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=3045","title":{"rendered":"When the half-marathon world record is broken by\u2026 a robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div layout=\"desktop\">\n<p>In China, near Yizhuang, a half-marathon mixing humans and humanoid robots turned in favor of the machines. Set up to popularize the technological advances of the Middle Kingdom, this race saw a robot from the Honor smartphone brand win. Beyond his success, he also broke the world record, held by Ugandan Jacob Kiplimo (57&#8217;20&#8221;) since March, in Lisbon.<\/p>\n<h2>Several robot falls all the same<\/h2>\n<p>Despite this \u201chistoric\u201d performance, the initiative was cut short for certain robots who fell or ran into a barrier. As for today&#8217;s winner, he was equipped with an autonomous navigation system and ran on average at\u2026 25 km\/h.<\/p>\n<p>Among the competing robots, some were autonomous (40%), while others were remotely controlled. Last year&#8217;s weather was blown. In 2025, the best robot took 2 hours 40 minutes to complete the half marathon. This year, the fastest finished the 21 kilometers in 50&#8217;26.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-placeholder u-placeholder-twitter\" data-vendor=\"xtwitter-3cVkYrxq\">\n<div class=\"p-xxl@xs border-color-grey-200 radius-l@xs cmp-placeholder u-hidden\">\n<p class=\"mb-m@xs text-l@xs\">By clicking on<span class=\"ml-xxs@xs font-weight-bold@xs\">\u201cI accept\u201d<\/span>you accept the deposit of cookies by external services and will thus have access to the content of our partners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-xl@xs text-s@xs\">More information on the Cookie management policy page<\/p>\n<p><button class=\"mx-auto@xs flex@xs items-center@xs justify-center@xs gap-xxs@xs c-btn c-btn--primary cmp-button\">I accept<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Parallel journeys for humans and robots<\/h2>\n<p>In order to avoid collision, humans and robots ran on two parallel tracks. The winning robot, whose legs are 95 cm long, has a cooling system.<\/p>\n<p>The best of them shone despite the presence of a hundred competitors. Congratulations, champ!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In China, near Yizhuang, a half-marathon mixing humans and humanoid robots turned in favor of the machines. Set up to popularize the technological advances of the Middle Kingdom, this race saw a robot from the Honor smartphone brand win. Beyond his success, he also broke the world record, held by Ugandan Jacob Kiplimo (57&#8217;20&#8221;) since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}