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A Figure F.03 robot just walked for 9 days straight on this treadmill, completin

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23 Aug
WHRG'26: Tiangong humanoid robot crushed the 400m in 38.15 and the 1500m in 2:21.6, smashing the human world records of 43.03 and 3:26 set by Niekerk (2016) and Guerrouj (1998) respectively

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1vwak0v/whrg26_tiangong_humanoid_robot_crushed_the_400m/"> <img alt="WHRG'26: Tiangong humanoid robot

OPINION · WHAT · singularityOPEN STORY
13 May
Figure AI livestream: watch a team of humanoid robots running a full 8-hour shift at human performance levels, fully autonomous.

&#32; submitted by &#32; <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Distinct-Question-16"> /u/Distinct-Question-16 </a> <br /> <span><a

OPINION · WHAT · singularityOPEN STORY
14 Apr
Why a half-marathon is a better robot benchmark than a warehouse demo

<p>A 21.1 km road course exposes failure modes that controlled environments never surface. Beijing is about to run the test again.</p> <h2> The demo problem </h2> <p>Watch enough

REPORT · WHO · Dev.toOPEN STORY
15 Apr
Unitree claims to internally do a half marathon in a little over 50 minutes preparing for the humanoid marathon in 4 days (average speed: <7.0325m/s). The Human best is Jacob Kiplimo 57m30s (average speed: 6.115m/s)

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1sm1otr/unitree_claims_to_internally_do_a_half_marathon/"> <img alt="Unitree claims to internally do a half

OPINION · WHAT · singularityOPEN STORY
21 Apr
Service team POV of a robot running the course of half marathon, joint temperatures constantly over 70 to 100 degrees celsius

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1srutwo/service_team_pov_of_a_robot_running_the_course_of/"> <img alt="Service team POV of a robot running

OPINION · WHAT · singularityOPEN STORY
24 Mar
Following its acrobatic motorcycle, RAI Institute debuts RoadRunner, a robot whose wheels can position themselves to act as a motorcycle, a single-axis cart, or even as human walking

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1s2dsx8/following_its_acrobatic_motorcycle_rai_institute/"> <img alt="Following its acrobatic motorcycle,

OPINION · WHAT · singularityOPEN STORY
30 Apr
Bolt by MirrorMe just clocked 10.09 m/s outdoors. Usain Bolt's all-time record is 12.42 m/s. The gap between the fastest human and fastest robot is now 2.33 m/s - down from effectively infinite just 5 years ago.

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>This isn't a &quot;robots are coming&quot; hot take. This is a data point worth sitting with.</p> <p>Five years ago no bipedal robot could

OPINION · WHEN · ArtificialInteligenceOPEN STORY
1 Apr
Figure AI CEO shared that in March they reached a milestone, manufacturing more robots than ever before

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1s9otxj/figure_ai_ceo_shared_that_in_march_they_reached_a/"> <img alt="Figure AI CEO shared that in March

OPINION · WHO · singularityOPEN STORY
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