Fern says that although dance abilities can be fun and eye -driven, they do not really show how useful the Humanoid robot is in real world conditions. Even being able to run half a marathon is not a very useful standard for their abilities – it is not that the demand for a robot market that can compete with human runners. Fern says the standards are that they are important to how they can handle the tasks of the diverse real world without step -by -step humanitarian instructions. “But I would expect China to focus more on useful tasks this year, as people are bored with dancing and karate,” says Fern.
The robots participating in the race came in different forms. The shortest was just 2 feet and 5 inches tall. Playing the blue and white track suit and waving the spectators every few seconds, it was probably the crowd’s favorite. The tallest, five feet nine inches, the winner was Tiangong Ultra.
What is common in the robot is that they are biopsy instead of running on the wheel, which needs to be participated in the race. As long as the robots met this requirement, they were free to be creative, and their companies followed a broad strategy to try to benefit from their rivals. Some were wearing children’s shaped shoes (though they were on their pedal to avoid falling). Others were equipped with knee pads to protect their delicate parts from damage when they fall. Most robots removed their fingers and some even lost their heads – you do not need such parts, you do not need such parts, and removing them reduces the weight of the robot and the amount of load on their motors.
Tiangong Ultra and another model, developed by the Chinese company Nautix Robotics, stood for their consistency, despite slowly taking place in the race. The performance of other humanoids was mostly devastating. A robot called Huahanan, whose head is a human head, went slowly for a few minutes, while his head shook uncontrollably-as it could fall at any time.
Another robot called Shinong looks like a real franklin Einstein monster, with a head that resembles wheat and four drone propellers who face backwards. It is sitting on an eight -wheeled foundation, and it is unclear that it was not only incompetent. But this was not even the biggest problem of Shenong, as the robot immediately removed from the opening line in two circles. He rotated, hit the wall, and dragged his human operators with it. It was painful to see.
The duct tape proved to be the most effective tool to solve the problem. Not only did humans make temporary robot shoes with duct tape, but they also used it to keep the robot’s head back to his body when he fell during the running repeatedly, making some wonderful scenes.
Each robot had human operators, often running with them two or three. Some had a control panel that allows them to give instructions to the robot, including how fast it is, while other operators followed their robot paths and tried to clear potential barriers on the ground. Many humanoids were being kept in such a way that, like, well, looked like pets. “You want to think more about these robots like a remote -controlled car, but the robot doesn’t have wheels,” says Fern.