Toby Howell

I think you mean phone a friend?

Ah, like when the founders at Unfiltered Hospitality used the rewards to fly a new hire for onboarding?

Exactly.

It's straightforward and lets you earn travel bonuses.

Yeah, this is all very intentional from China.

If you go back to 2015, they named robotics as a key sector that they wanted to invest in that would go towards rehabilitating humans.

its technological image on a global stage.

This race absolutely does this because it overtakes social media every single time it's hosted.

More people care about the robots than the actual human runners at this point.

One, because it's very comedic to see the robots who have these like derpy falls and completely explode on impact with the ground.

But also, it is cool to see the massive amount of progress that has happened in just the past two years.

I mean, I don't think anyone expected a 50-minute marathon to come...

if you look back at last year when it was well over two hours half marathon, that is, I want to shout out Honor too, because this is the manufacturer.

They make smartphones.

How did a smartphone manufacturer just jump to the lead of the robotics?

Because they actually do a lot of stuff that contributes towards making a good robot as well.

If you think about their experience in miniaturization of many technologies, lightweight design, thermal management is a big thing too when it comes to these robot races.

So

It makes sense that a smartphone manufacturer would excel at all these things that translate very well into creating a running robot.

The funny thing, too, is that they did look at humans to inform design choices for their robot.