{"id":1030944,"date":"2026-08-25T07:57:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T02:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030944"},"modified":"2026-08-25T08:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T02:34:13","slug":"robots-can-outrun-humans-but-can-they-plug-in-a-cable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/25\/robots-can-outrun-humans-but-can-they-plug-in-a-cable\/","title":{"rendered":"Robots can outrun humans, but can they plug in a cable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING: China&#8217;s humanoid robots have shown they can run quicker than the fastest humans. <\/p>\n<p>Now comes the real test: can \u200bthey also handle packaging and warehouse operations while reliably performing precision tasks like connecting cables \u200bdesigned to evaluate their ability to work like humans in less flashy jobs? <\/p>\n<p>The five-day World Humanoid Robot Games, which began Saturday in Beijing, combine events modelled on human sports with those designed to test the robots in simulated factories, restaurants, offices and in emergency situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING: China&#8217;s humanoid robots have shown they can run quicker than the fastest humans. Now comes the real test: can \u200bthey also handle packaging and warehouse operations while reliably performing precision tasks like connecting cables \u200bdesigned to evaluate their ability to work like humans in less flashy jobs? The five-day World Humanoid Robot Games, which began Saturday in Beijing, combine events modelled on human sports with those designed to test the robots in simulated factories, restaurants, offices and in emergency situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030945,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030944\/revisions\/1030945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}