Sunday, 30 August 2026

You Can Relax Olympians

This weekend saw the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing and after years of scientists teaching robots to play sports, they still suck at it.
That said, in the 100-meter sprint a humanoid robot achieved a result of 9.39 seconds, beating the human record of 9.58 seconds set by Jamaican athlete Bolt in 2009 but after completing the course it ran into a wall and exploded which Usain never did and in a standing high jump one was able to reach 2.88 meters which is well above the 2.45 meters best result by one of us meat bags with a run up.
In the other events i am glad to say they failed miserably and one scientist explained that robots are great when they have one instruction to follow but when they are asked to do more, they get confused and either fall over figuratively and in some cases physically.
The two sports they do excel at is chess and table tennis which they regularly whup our arses at but as most sports rely on more than one thing happening at the same time, our Olympians are not in danger of being replaced just yet. 

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