The Finish Line Was a Wall
On the evening of 26 August 2026, inside Beijing’s National Speed Skating Oval, a bipedal machine named Tiangong Ultra crossed a painted line in 8.64 seconds. The distance was one hundred metres.
Robots and athletes: machines that move, and bodies that compete.
On the evening of 26 August 2026, inside Beijing’s National Speed Skating Oval, a bipedal machine named Tiangong Ultra crossed a painted line in 8.64 seconds. The distance was one hundred metres.
Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Boris Becker owned one of the most feared serves in tennis. The big German could blast aces that left returners flat-footed.