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China’s humanoid robots surpass human half-marathon pace

In the second edition of Beijing's humanoid robot half-marathon, held on April 19, a top-performing remote-controlled robot finished in 48 minutes and 19 seconds – well under the elite human half-marathon record of 57 minutes and 20 seconds. Autonomous navigation robots also competed, with the winning net time at 50 minutes and 26 seconds, marking a dramatic leap from last year's champion, who clocked 2 hours, 40 minutes and 42 seconds. Also in this newsletter: China's space station prepares to welcome its first foreign astronauts, as two Pakistani candidates have been selected to begin training for future missions. Plus, DeepSeek unveils a new AI model – DeepSeek-V4 – adapted for Huawei's Ascend chips, expanding context length to 1 million tokens and challenging Nvidia's dominance in AI computing.

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