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ICYMI - The Robot Beat the Human. Robot Marathons?
Humanoid robots in 2026 just ran a half marathon faster than the human world record for the same distance. Last year one robot finished in two hours and forty minutes. This year Lightning, built by a smartphone company, did it in fifty minutes. The human record was fifty-two. Forty percent of the three hundred robots on the course ran without a technician or controller anywhere nearby.
That is one story. The other is a Samsung concept robot sitting on your kitchen counter conducting every smart device in your home like an orchestra. The third is Prego, the pasta sauce company, selling a…
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