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I was caught off guard on this. As you almost

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certainly always are. Yep. So could you be prepared

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for something that happens weekly? Can you just

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tell me off the top of your head how you're feeling

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today? I'm feeling good. Again? Yeah. No way.

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Am I going to that one too much? An AI update.

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Okay. That's so weird. I felt like that too.

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All day. Good or an AI update? An AI update.

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Yeah, it's a weird feeling. Can't describe it

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other than those words exactly. Okay, let's go

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with this one. I would say this borders on feel

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good. I don't know. I don't know. Actually, that

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may be bold of me to say this is coming from

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AP News and as any good person who talks for

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fun. I was gonna say journalists but I'm certainly

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not a journalist. We read the journalists. Yeah,

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I actually have never heard of AP News before.

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I'm sure they're good. Yeah, they are. That's

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the Associated Press, I'm pretty sure. Oh good,

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okay. And this one's from their oddities department.

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never saw that before and the title is no sweat

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humanoid robots run a chinese half marathon alongside

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flesh and blood competitors and i do like how

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they distinguished between humanoid robot and

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flesh and blood competitor yeah i mean they could

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have said human which makes me think it wasn't

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just a human marathon it's true It could have

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been like animals, too, if they want to say it

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that way, right? Yeah. OK, apparently nobody

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wrote this. It's updated April 19th, 2025. Is

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there a chance that the robot wrote this? I was

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literally thinking it was an athlete and a scholar.

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Yep. One would be led to believe that. OK, Beijing

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in one small step for robot. Thousands of them,

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really. Humanoid robots ran alongside actual

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humans in a half marathon in the Chinese capital

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on Saturday. The bipedal robots of various makes

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and sizes navigated the 21 .1 kilometer course,

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supported by teams of human navigators, operators,

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and engineers. And what event organizers say

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was a first. As a precaution, a divider separated

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the parallel courses used by the robots and people.

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Sorry, I gotta scroll a lot here. While flesh

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and blood participants followed conventional

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rules, the 20 teams fielding machines in the

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humanoid robot half marathon competed under tailored

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guidelines, which included battery swap pit stops.

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The Sky Project Ultra Robot, also known as Tien

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Kung Ultra from the Tien Kung team, claimed victory

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among the non -humans, crossing the finish line

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in 2 hours 40 minutes and 42 seconds. That's

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well faster than I could do it. Is it? Well,

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I don't know. Oh, yeah. I was just waiting to

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hear when the human crossed the finish line.

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Oh, they would have been before that, but that's

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still like that's a good pace. OK. Awards were

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also given out for best endurance, best gate

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design and most in Well, I finished this off.

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I'm just going to send you a link to the article

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because they actually have pictures of these

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robots running here. Take a look. And they're

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they're dressed and they're wearing runners.

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I like it. They really emphasize that it's a

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humanoid robot. Like they're really. Hold on.

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If you actually look at that and you scroll all

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the way down, there's one that's definitely not

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a human robot. I think it might be a human. There's

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one they even put a face on. I'm not even sure

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what to call that. There's one they gave in a

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robot metal. That's so nice There's a kid one

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too. There are so many pictures here. Oh, yeah,

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there are dogs. Oh One fell. That's sad They

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even made it tethered like toddlers that that

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child one one's break dancing. I'm pretty sure

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Okay, you guys, I'd love to continue reading,

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but I think that was the end of the article.

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And the rest was just me scrolling down through

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pictures, hoping there was more article. But

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that was it. It didn't seem to... I do like that...

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I was expecting more information. That toddler

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robot, it has descriptions of all the pictures.

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I just want to read these to you. A robot takes

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part in what is billed as the world's first robot

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half marathon during the humanoid robot half

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marathon held in Beijing. Oh, this happened in

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April. OK, that's right. That's when the article's

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from. A robot loses control at the start. The

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crew of the robot reacts as the robot loses control

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at the start. That's definitely a toddler robot.

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I knew exactly what one you're talking about.

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A robot from Droid Up walks. Yeah. walks to the

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award ceremony after winning the second runner

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-up position. Child reacts to a wheeled robot.

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He's not boxing, in fact. He might be trying

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to go steel first. It's true. He might be. It

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doesn't say what place he went. Oh, so that robot's

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not breakdancing. It's doing a backflip. It's

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demonstrating its backflip. Oh, oh, here's a

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child reacting to a wheeled robot after the humanoid

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robot half marathon held in Beijing. And actually,

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that raises a lot of questions for me. Were wheeled

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competitors allowed? It doesn't seem like it,

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just from looking at it. It would seem unfair,

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but there's one. I wonder what he did with that

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medal that he won. I wonder if the designers

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took it away from him. Would you run in a race

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like this? I don't actually think people were

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allowed to run in this race. Hold on. Because

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it's called the humanoid robot half marathon.

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Oh, I completely misunderstood it. Hold on. No,

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it said at one point. No, I think you're right.

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Yeah. OK. I definitely know. And you are right,

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because the headline says alongside flesh and

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blood competitors. But I don't think. Oh, yeah.

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A flesh and blood participants follow conventional

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rules. The 20 teams fielding. Yeah, there was.

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There's just no pictures of them, I think. Yeah.

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Well, yeah. Everybody's seen a person race. Not

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many people have seen like tech people race behind

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their robot trying to make sure it doesn't fall

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down for 21 kilometers. And there's different

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sorts of robots. I think that like this was because

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the second picture, this one has fingers and

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like a helmet. And the first guy just has balls

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for him. He does. Who's the winner? And then

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there's the one with like the mannequin face.

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And then there's also the dogs. But yeah, it's

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a humanoid race, so I don't even know if they're

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part of it. And it's lots of dogs. There's like.

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Oh, no, sorry, Chelsea. They're doing a performance.

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Four legged robots performed during before the

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award ceremony. What a weird thing to be a part

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of. Yeah, we're living in the future. This is

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this one's given a high five to a kid. Which

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one OK'd the idea of designing a toddler robot

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to win the race like a toddler robots just not

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going to win? No, it's clumsy as fuck. Oh man,

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and sorry, one more thing I have to point out.

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In the toddler photo, the third one where it's

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just flat down. Yeah, flat down. What's going

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on with the programmer or the guy behind him?

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His tongue's out. Yeah, like fully out. I was

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just looking at that. Do you think he's mocking

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him? Like you stupid toddler robot. Like you

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would do with a toddler losing a marathon. Oh,

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and someone's like waving a flag right over him

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too. Anyhow, that's probably enough out of this

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one. Would you consider this AI? I don't think

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it's AI, but it is robots, and they're going

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to be intertwined. Are you calling into question?

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No, I'm just trying to figure out, are you saying

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that the AI is going to take over these robots

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and be super? Yes, definitely. That's what I'm

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saying. And running a slightly above average

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half marathon pace? Yeah, it's a prophecy. Yeah.

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It's very exciting. Well, I guess you guys got

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48 hours to think about that prophecy. And actually,

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now that I think about it, the robot doing a

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bat flip, I think is the toddler robot because

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it's got the handles on the back. You can see

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it. Oh, man. That's just calling for all sorts

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of disaster. Anyhow. Yeah. Don't think about

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this too much. It's got a lot of weird implications.

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Anyhow.