{"id":31982,"date":"2011-02-27T16:43:32","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T16:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/and-they%e2%80%99re-off-world%e2%80%99s-first-robot-marathon-gets-underway-discoblog\/"},"modified":"2011-02-27T16:43:32","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T16:43:32","slug":"and-they%e2%80%99re-off-world%e2%80%99s-first-robot-marathon-gets-underway-discoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/and-they%e2%80%99re-off-world%e2%80%99s-first-robot-marathon-gets-underway-discoblog.php","title":{"rendered":"And They\u2019re Off! World\u2019s First Robot Marathon Gets Underway | Discoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First there was <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/2001\/jan\/breakpong\/?searchterm=RoboCup\">RoboCup<\/a>, in which teams of robots kicked soccer balls around indoor fields. And now, as I write these words, five robots are competing in Robo Mara Full, the world&rsquo;s first marathon for our plastic and metallic friends.<\/p><p>This video shows the competitors in a practice run:<\/p><p>Funded by the city government of Osaka, Japan, and organized by the robotics company <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vstone.co.jp\/english\/index.html\">Vstone<\/a>, the race began on Thursday. These robots aren&rsquo;t exactly speed demons&ndash;the winner is expected to finish sometime on Sunday. The race is taking place on an indoor track at Osaka&rsquo;s Asia-Pacific trade center, a business complex in Osaka. Tto complete the 26.2-mile marathon, the robots will have to make it around the track 422 times.<\/p><p>The competition is a cross between a traditional, human-run marathon and a NASCAR race: The robots must complete the marathon without the help of humans, but the teams are allowed to switch out their robots&rsquo; batteries and to make repairs. If you think it&rsquo;s not fair that the engineers get to repair their robots during the marathon, keep in mind that the time taken for these repairs counts in the racing time.<\/p><p>To warm up for the big race on Thursday, ...<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/oEJ_pAoSadZwR0PuvKcKonXKknw\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e32c4_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/oEJ_pAoSadZwR0PuvKcKonXKknw\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e32c4_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e32c4_YN5RNCaxFlw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e32c4_BPSDYqAO5Uo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First there was RoboCup, in which teams of robots kicked soccer balls around indoor fields. And now, as I write these words, five robots are competing in Robo Mara Full, the world&rsquo;s first marathon for our plastic and metallic friends.This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/and-they%e2%80%99re-off-world%e2%80%99s-first-robot-marathon-gets-underway-discoblog.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}