I was caught off guard on this. As you almost
certainly always are. Yep. So could you be prepared
for something that happens weekly? Can you just
tell me off the top of your head how you're feeling
today? I'm feeling good. Again? Yeah. No way.
Am I going to that one too much? An AI update.
Okay. That's so weird. I felt like that too.
All day. Good or an AI update? An AI update.
Yeah, it's a weird feeling. Can't describe it
other than those words exactly. Okay, let's go
with this one. I would say this borders on feel
good. I don't know. I don't know. Actually, that
may be bold of me to say this is coming from
AP News and as any good person who talks for
fun. I was gonna say journalists but I'm certainly
not a journalist. We read the journalists. Yeah,
I actually have never heard of AP News before.
I'm sure they're good. Yeah, they are. That's
the Associated Press, I'm pretty sure. Oh good,
okay. And this one's from their oddities department.
never saw that before and the title is no sweat
humanoid robots run a chinese half marathon alongside
flesh and blood competitors and i do like how
they distinguished between humanoid robot and
flesh and blood competitor yeah i mean they could
have said human which makes me think it wasn't
just a human marathon it's true It could have
been like animals, too, if they want to say it
that way, right? Yeah. OK, apparently nobody
wrote this. It's updated April 19th, 2025. Is
there a chance that the robot wrote this? I was
literally thinking it was an athlete and a scholar.
Yep. One would be led to believe that. OK, Beijing
in one small step for robot. Thousands of them,
really. Humanoid robots ran alongside actual
humans in a half marathon in the Chinese capital
on Saturday. The bipedal robots of various makes
and sizes navigated the 21 .1 kilometer course,
supported by teams of human navigators, operators,
and engineers. And what event organizers say
was a first. As a precaution, a divider separated
the parallel courses used by the robots and people.
Sorry, I gotta scroll a lot here. While flesh
and blood participants followed conventional
rules, the 20 teams fielding machines in the
humanoid robot half marathon competed under tailored
guidelines, which included battery swap pit stops.
The Sky Project Ultra Robot, also known as Tien
Kung Ultra from the Tien Kung team, claimed victory
among the non -humans, crossing the finish line
in 2 hours 40 minutes and 42 seconds. That's
well faster than I could do it. Is it? Well,
I don't know. Oh, yeah. I was just waiting to
hear when the human crossed the finish line.
Oh, they would have been before that, but that's
still like that's a good pace. OK. Awards were
also given out for best endurance, best gate
design and most in Well, I finished this off.
I'm just going to send you a link to the article
because they actually have pictures of these
robots running here. Take a look. And they're
they're dressed and they're wearing runners.
I like it. They really emphasize that it's a
humanoid robot. Like they're really. Hold on.
If you actually look at that and you scroll all
the way down, there's one that's definitely not
a human robot. I think it might be a human. There's
one they even put a face on. I'm not even sure
what to call that. There's one they gave in a
robot metal. That's so nice There's a kid one
too. There are so many pictures here. Oh, yeah,
there are dogs. Oh One fell. That's sad They
even made it tethered like toddlers that that
child one one's break dancing. I'm pretty sure
Okay, you guys, I'd love to continue reading,
but I think that was the end of the article.
And the rest was just me scrolling down through
pictures, hoping there was more article. But
that was it. It didn't seem to... I do like that...
I was expecting more information. That toddler
robot, it has descriptions of all the pictures.
I just want to read these to you. A robot takes
part in what is billed as the world's first robot
half marathon during the humanoid robot half
marathon held in Beijing. Oh, this happened in
April. OK, that's right. That's when the article's
from. A robot loses control at the start. The
crew of the robot reacts as the robot loses control
at the start. That's definitely a toddler robot.
I knew exactly what one you're talking about.
A robot from Droid Up walks. Yeah. walks to the
award ceremony after winning the second runner
-up position. Child reacts to a wheeled robot.
He's not boxing, in fact. He might be trying
to go steel first. It's true. He might be. It
doesn't say what place he went. Oh, so that robot's
not breakdancing. It's doing a backflip. It's
demonstrating its backflip. Oh, oh, here's a
child reacting to a wheeled robot after the humanoid
robot half marathon held in Beijing. And actually,
that raises a lot of questions for me. Were wheeled
competitors allowed? It doesn't seem like it,
just from looking at it. It would seem unfair,
but there's one. I wonder what he did with that
medal that he won. I wonder if the designers
took it away from him. Would you run in a race
like this? I don't actually think people were
allowed to run in this race. Hold on. Because
it's called the humanoid robot half marathon.
Oh, I completely misunderstood it. Hold on. No,
it said at one point. No, I think you're right.
Yeah. OK. I definitely know. And you are right,
because the headline says alongside flesh and
blood competitors. But I don't think. Oh, yeah.
A flesh and blood participants follow conventional
rules. The 20 teams fielding. Yeah, there was.
There's just no pictures of them, I think. Yeah.
Well, yeah. Everybody's seen a person race. Not
many people have seen like tech people race behind
their robot trying to make sure it doesn't fall
down for 21 kilometers. And there's different
sorts of robots. I think that like this was because
the second picture, this one has fingers and
like a helmet. And the first guy just has balls
for him. He does. Who's the winner? And then
there's the one with like the mannequin face.
And then there's also the dogs. But yeah, it's
a humanoid race, so I don't even know if they're
part of it. And it's lots of dogs. There's like.
Oh, no, sorry, Chelsea. They're doing a performance.
Four legged robots performed during before the
award ceremony. What a weird thing to be a part
of. Yeah, we're living in the future. This is
this one's given a high five to a kid. Which
one OK'd the idea of designing a toddler robot
to win the race like a toddler robots just not
going to win? No, it's clumsy as fuck. Oh man,
and sorry, one more thing I have to point out.
In the toddler photo, the third one where it's
just flat down. Yeah, flat down. What's going
on with the programmer or the guy behind him?
His tongue's out. Yeah, like fully out. I was
just looking at that. Do you think he's mocking
him? Like you stupid toddler robot. Like you
would do with a toddler losing a marathon. Oh,
and someone's like waving a flag right over him
too. Anyhow, that's probably enough out of this
one. Would you consider this AI? I don't think
it's AI, but it is robots, and they're going
to be intertwined. Are you calling into question?
No, I'm just trying to figure out, are you saying
that the AI is going to take over these robots
and be super? Yes, definitely. That's what I'm
saying. And running a slightly above average
half marathon pace? Yeah, it's a prophecy. Yeah.
It's very exciting. Well, I guess you guys got
48 hours to think about that prophecy. And actually,
now that I think about it, the robot doing a
bat flip, I think is the toddler robot because
it's got the handles on the back. You can see
it. Oh, man. That's just calling for all sorts
of disaster. Anyhow. Yeah. Don't think about
this too much. It's got a lot of weird implications.
Anyhow.