China's Inaugural 'robot Olmypics' Delivers Impressive Feats And Disastrous Falls

The first-ever World Humanoid Robot Games person travel to a adjacent pinch immoderate caller world records, but don't expect them to hit humans successful a 100-meter dash immoderate clip soon. The three-day robotics arena successful Beijing, China that saw humanoid robots compete successful everything from boxing to cleaning concluded this weekend. According to nan World Humanoid Robot Games, much than 280 teams from 16 countries, including nan US, Germany, Brazil and nan big country, entered their robots into nan event.

A mostly of nan teams came from universities, but respective teams came from established robotics companies for illustration Unitree and Fournier Intelligence. Hundreds of robots competed successful accepted sporting events for illustration running, shot and array tennis, on pinch events for much applicable tasks, for illustration cleaning aliases sorting medicine. Unitree snagged golden medals successful 4 categories, including nan 1,500-meter, 400-meter, 100-meter, and 4x100-meter dash events. According to Unitree, nan fastest velocity achieved by 1 of its robots during nan arena was 4.78 m/s, which is astir 10 mph.

In nan 100-meter sprint, Unitree boasted a 33.71-second time, but that's obscurity adjacent nan world grounds holder Usain Bolt's clip of 9.58 seconds, which was achieved successful 2009. Instead, astir teams took this arena arsenic an opportunity to showcase nan abilities of their designs, while besides stress-testing their robots successful a competitory environment. We're still a agelong measurement from wide take of these humanoid bots though, particularly if they can't avoid moving into each other.