en.Wedoany.com Reported - On April 12, 2026, Honor's self-developed robots "Lightning" and "Vitality Buddy" officially announced their participation in the Beijing Yizhuang Marathon, becoming the world's first robot marathon challengers dispatched by a terminal manufacturer. According to the Honor technical team, the Honor robot "Lightning" integrates Honor's latest achievements in intelligent manufacturing and embodied AI, possessing high-dynamic motion control algorithms, real-time perception and understanding capabilities, and autonomous decision-making abilities. The competition will be held on April 19, 2026, in Beijing Yizhuang.
The 2026 Beijing Yizhuang Half Marathon & Humanoid Robot Half Marathon, themed "Leading the Way in Yizhuang," starts at Ke Chuang 17th Street by Tongming Lake in Beijing Yizhuang and finishes at Nanhaizi Park, covering a total distance of 21.0975 kilometers. The route integrates urban main roads, international auto racing segments, and park ecological scenes, providing a real, diverse, and complex practical environment for robots to comprehensively test their adaptation and decision-making capabilities in open scenarios. The event adopts a human-robot co-running mode, where human runners and humanoid robot runners start simultaneously and share the same track.
This year's event features an autonomous navigation category and a remote-control category, competing on the same track using a mixed timing method. Teams in the autonomous navigation category will have their net race time plus penalty time counted as their final result, while teams in the remote-control category will initially have their net race time multiplied by a coefficient of 1.2 plus penalty time as their final result. The event strictly stipulates that remote-control operators should not leave their vehicles unless necessary, and personnel following the robots is prohibited, encouraging and guiding more teams to achieve autonomous completion from a rule perspective. The event also innovatively introduces special awards such as the Best Endurance Award, Most Beautiful Gait Award, Best Design Award, and Best Perception Award to guide technological breakthroughs in areas like long endurance, human-like movement, and dynamic environment adaptation. The organizing committee will assist outstanding teams that completely autonomously complete the half marathon in applying for Guinness World Records.
From the evening of April 11 to the early morning of April 12, the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area organized a full-process, full-element test activity, comprehensively simulating core scenarios such as track passage, process scheduling, equipment coordination, and emergency support. Over 70 teams from the registered participants took part in this test, including 4 international teams, with autonomous navigation teams and remote-control teams conducting night tests on the same field. The Honor robot "Lightning" has already appeared on the test track for its debut. This participation marks Honor's entry into the practical scenario verification stage for its technological accumulation in the fields of embodied intelligence and intelligent manufacturing.
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