First Two-Legged Robot Marathon is Under Way In Osaka, Japan

gregg writes "Five knee-high androids have crossed the starting line in the world's first marathon for two-legged robots.The contestants are expected to take four days to complete the course, which involves 423 laps of an indoor track." The live robot marathon video feed will make you realize that not all robots are worthy of fear. Or even worth watching for more than a few minutes.

Comments

This is how it begins

[Jordan (jman)]

This is how it begins. First, they are running laps. Next thing you know, a T1000 is running you down in the streets.

Cheating?

[Prosthetic_Lips]

Hey, who is judging this? One of the robots just crossed through the middle to get to the other side! Wow, those Japanese are good, they even built in cheating circuits!!

Not Surprising

[Conrthomas]

Who wants to bet that the Japanese will make some kind of game show out of this?

I read that terribly wrong in my head.

[Anonymous Coward]

Five-knee high androids. Picture it, it's majestic.

Lame.

[doti]

Unfortunately, these robots are not autonomous.

And the Winner was..

[JoeCommodore]

We heart Osaka!

That was a fun event to watch, I stayed with it for the last couple hours. Near the end they help up the lead robot to make the finish more exciting, Osaka would have been #2, the other one (I cant find a contestant list) was of the same design. the third place robot (still moving) did about 219 laps of the 422, next was 127, and the fifth robot didn't have a lap count at the end, so probably failed early on. Ah, heres the results: http://www.mastinepal.com/showthread.php?t=11938