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Robot Runs A Half-Marathon · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Variety from the eighties through today four to six pointy
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  Speaker 1: seven afmcc peniston, Cubby and Nina and for Christine producer
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  Speaker 1: Christen producing in the background, and we're all a little
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  Speaker 1: freaked out. It's very, I don't know, weird this video
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  Speaker 1: and if you haven't seen it yet, you're gonna see
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  Speaker 1: it probably on social media or your morning shows on TV.
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  Speaker 1: But a humanoid robot beats a human and a half
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  Speaker 1: marathon in Beijing.
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  Speaker 2: Of course it does.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 1: A humanoid robot in Beijing outpaced the human half marathon
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  Speaker 1: world record during a race exclusively for robots. The robot,
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  Speaker 1: developed by Chinese smartphone maker Honor, completed the half marathon
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  Speaker 1: course in fifty minutes and twenty six seconds, and the
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  Speaker 1: human record of fifty seven minutes and twenty seconds is
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  Speaker 1: held by Ugandan. His name is Jacob Kiplomo. But last
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  Speaker 1: year the winning robot finished in two hours and forty minutes.
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  Speaker 1: So from two hours and forty minutes last year to
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  Speaker 1: fifty minutes this year. But the video just shows this
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  Speaker 1: robot like it looks like you're watching the terminator. It's creepy,
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  Speaker 1: and it's kind of creepy, But I mean, what's happening here?
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  Speaker 1: Is this gonna be the state of marathons from now on?
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna be competing against the robots.
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  Speaker 2: Well, my first thought, Oho.
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  Speaker 3: Litle background music, I love that your thoughts. I got
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  Speaker 3: distracted by the robots song. Oh my god.
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  Speaker 2: My first thought is it just means if we ever
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  Speaker 2: have to run from these things, they're gonna catch us.
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  Speaker 3: So scary. I never thought of that, but yeah, they
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  Speaker 3: take over.
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  Speaker 2: We can't get away.
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  Speaker 3: Scary.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I feel like it is the season for marathons
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  Speaker 1: after all. Yes, you got the Boston Marathon. Today, Jersey
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  Speaker 1: City had a huge marathon. A couple of people that
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  Speaker 1: we know ran in yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: That was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: They do they finished?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Jp is his name, he's one of our photographers. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how he did. I know he finished great.
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  Speaker 1: And then another friend of mine that works over at
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  Speaker 1: Alliance Orthopedics, her name is Charlie's and she's an awesome,
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  Speaker 1: awesome woman, and she actually takes care of me and
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  Speaker 1: my wife and works us out, and she particip paid
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  Speaker 1: it in that marathon, that Jersey City one yesterday. I
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  Speaker 1: know she did well, But yeah, I feel like there's
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  Speaker 1: two waves of marathon seasons. You got the one in November, yep,
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  Speaker 1: with New York, and I think Chicago does one in November.
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  Speaker 1: Then it gets cold, we're all inside for a few months.
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  Speaker 2: And they start back.
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  Speaker 3: They start back up in April.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a triathlon this year in New York. It's
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  Speaker 2: in it's the end of October, so it's right before
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  Speaker 2: the marathon.
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  Speaker 3: Have you ever ran a marathon?
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  Speaker 1: You know?
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  Speaker 2: No, I think I could.
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  Speaker 3: I know, like Kristin has done like a was it
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  Speaker 3: a three k or a five k? Did a five k? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I feel like a five K. I've never even done
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  Speaker 3: a five k.
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  Speaker 2: Rich Kamenski did a marathon one year, a whole one.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Do you in New York City Marathon?
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  Speaker 2: He did the New York City Marathon for the New
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  Speaker 2: York I think it was New York City. It's been
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  Speaker 2: a minute, but he did it.
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  Speaker 3: For sure. It's kind of on my bucket list, but
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  Speaker 3: it's kind of not.
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  Speaker 2: Will you watch him every year and you think, oh,
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  Speaker 2: that looked like that'd be fun, and then the year
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  Speaker 2: goes by and you forget until they see it again.
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  Speaker 1: Well, if you're a runner, you may have a robot
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  Speaker 1: competing against you pretty soon.