Interview: Philip Rabinowitz discusses his attempt to break a world record for the fastest 100-meter run by a centenarianMICHELE NORRIS
If the thought of a two-legged robot chasing you down in the streets keeps you up at night, then you can sleep easy … for now. A droid named Cassie has set a Guinness World Record for the 100-meter dash by a bipedal robot, and while it’s far from the blistering pace of the w...
Vero’s flame-filled race in September recently earned a Guinness World Record for the fastest 100-meter sprint and the farthest run while on fire. The records were the completion of a goal Vero, a 39-year-old resident of Lille, France, had set to prove he was one of the world’...
In the 100, she tied the world record of 11.3 seconds in the semifinals, then won the final by three yards in 11.0. However, because of a 2.75-meter per second wind -- above the acceptable limit of two meters per second -- she didn't receive credit for a world record. In the 200...
The 100-meter record builds on earlier achievements by the robot, includingtraversing 5 kilometersin 2021 in just over 53 minutes. Cassie, the first bipedal robot to use machine learning to control a running gait on outdoor terrain, completed the 5K on Oregon State...
meter freestyleon Saturday in Tokyo, which gives her six individual gold medals during her career, the most by a woman in the pool.She has seven golds overall.Elsewhere in the pool, Caeleb Dressel struck gold anda world recordin his first of multiple...
Swimmer Ariarne Titmus Sets 400-Meter Freestyle World Record More ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) — Olympic gold medalist Ariarne Titmus has broken the women’s 400-meter freestyle world record at the Australian swimming championships. Titmus finished in 3 minutes, 56.40 seconds in Sunday night...
" Hurst said in the news release. "I believe control approaches like this are going to be a huge part of the future of robotics. The exciting part of this race is the potential. Using learned policies for robot control is a very new field, and this 100-meter dash is showing better ...
Ge says her biggest goal right now is doing well at the Tokyo Olympics, She hopes to run in the women's 100-meter and 200-meter finals, as well as the 400-meter relay event.Did you know?The top 200-meter record in Chin a is held by Chinese sprinter Li Xuemei. She set a record...
Serbian-Slovak ultrarunner Michal Šuľa began his new year by setting a new world record for the longest distance run on a treadmill over the span of a week. Inside a physical therapy clinic in Bratislava, Slovakia, Šuľa covered 846.52 kilometers (526 miles) in six days and seven ...