Prophetic films on Uomi Robot relationships such as Her and TV series like Humans They showed that people could soon fall in love with humanoids increasingly resembling people in flesh. From the kitchen, to house cleaning, from fatigue works and not only of effort to war to sex, robotics is inexorably taking possession of our lives. It was up to sport, indeed it has actually been touched for technology and artificial intelligence already today in many disciplines are necessary for projects, development, to improve performance and safety. But if you expect to see the robots behind a sports project or at most alongside, perhaps she did not imagine seeing them protagonists in a striking way. And instead we are there. A few days ago in Beijing on the streets around E-Town, the state high-tach production center in the Chinese capital, the first half marathon in the world was ran with humanoid robots as a showcase to show off China’s push to drive the global race in cutting-edge technology. An initiative, not surprisingly, presented as a revolutionary to test the limits of bipedal robots in real conditions. Twenty -one teams in the race. Following the robot, many with human features, three technicians of the main operators in the sector including Unithee Robotics, Engineairobot, Leju. The first at the finish was the Ultra robot Tiangg of the Beijing Innovation Center of Human Robotics, already winner of the half marathon for only robots last November who closed his effort in 2 hours and 40 minutes. He raised his arms to heaven, sketched a smile and perhaps he also thought of stopping on the finish line to wait for the second with which he had fought shoulder on the shoulder. Then the organizers gave him a sponsored borraccio and put a towel in his neck. But, surprise, he was not sweaty …