About 12,000 human athletes ran in a half marathon race in Beijing on Saturday, but most of the attention was on a group of other, more unconventional participants: 21 humanoid robots. The event’s organizers, which included several branches of Beijing’s municipal government, claim it’s the first time humans and bipedal robots have run in the same race, though they jogged on separate tracks. Six of the robots successfully finished the course, but they were unable to keep up with the speed of the humans.
The fastest robot, Tiangong Ultra, developed by Chinese robotics company UBTech in collaboration with the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, finished the race in two hours and 40 minutes after assistants changed its batteries three times and it fell down once. — Read More
Daily Archives: April 21, 2025
Inside OpenAI’s Controversial Plan to Abandon its Nonprofit Roots
Earlier this month, OpenAI announced that it aspires to build “the best-equipped nonprofit the world has ever seen” and was convening a commission to help determine how to use its “potentially historic financial resources.”
But critics view this new commission as a transparent attempt to placate opposition to its controversial plan to restructure fully as a for-profit — one that fails to address the fundamental legal issues at stake. — Read More
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