The team carried out three battery swaps, the centre’s CTO Tang Jian told Chinese news outlet Yicai, according to a report on Saturday. Tang explained that while adding battery capacity would ...

“I don’t want to boast, but I think no other robotics firms in the West have matched Tiangong’s sporting achievements,” said Tiangong Ultra’s owner Tang Jian, the chief technology ...

Tang Jian, chief technology officer for the robotics centre, said Tiangong Ultra’s performance was aided by long legs and an algorithm allowing it to imitate how humans run a marathon.

Officials likened the event more to motorsport than a traditional race. Tang Jian, CTO at Tiangong’s lab, said they plan to shift focus to real-world tasks: “A focus going forward will be indu ...

The men’s winner of the race had a time of 1 hour and 2 minutes. Tang Jian, chief technology officer for the robotics center said Tiangong Ultra’s performance was aided by long legs and an ...

Robots have raced against humans in a half-marathon for the first time. Some 21 humanoid robots raced alongside thousands of runners around the 21km (13-mile) course in Beijing, China, on Saturday.

Speaking to Reuters, Tang Jian, the Chief Technology Officer of the innovation centre, credited the robot’s performance to its "long legs" and a custom-built algorithm that mimics human running ...

Tang Jian, chief technology officer for the robotics centre, said Tiangong Ultra’s performance was aided by long legs and an algorithm allowing it to imitate how humans run a marathon.

“Running is a very basic ability of human beings,” said Tang Jian, chief technology officer of the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, as quoted by The Wall Street Journal. “Since we ...

Tang Jian, chief technology officer for the robotics innovation center, said Tiangong Ultra’s performance was aided by long legs and an algorithm allowing it to imitate how humans run a marathon.

“I don’t want to boast but I think no other robotics firms in the West have matched Tiangong’s sporting achievements,” Tang Jian, head of the company behind the winning robot, was quoted ...