Robot named Lightning blows past human runners to set half-marathon record in Beijing
Slide over, Jacob Kiplimo. The world’s fastest human in the half-marathon is still just that, but the Ugandan’s record time of 57 minutes, 20 seconds, was obliterated Sunday in Beijing by a 5-foot-5 humanoid robot named Lightning. Lightning was one of more than 100 robots running the 13.1-mile race in the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area…