標(biāo)題：Man Versus Machine as China Shows Off Humanoid Robots in Half Marathon

副標(biāo)題：A half-marathon in Beijing featured a road race between human runners and 21 robot models—and showed how far robots still are from mimicking people.

正文：Metal met asphalt in a half-marathon that featured thousands of human runners—and 21 Chinese humanoid robot models. Saturday’s road race involving human runners and a score of robots in Beijing has been billed as a showcase of China’s cutting-edge technology. Indeed, the robots, and their developers, had much at stake in the high-profile event. If the robots fell, froze or got lost during the widely promoted event, it would be an embarrassment for their developers.

知識(shí)點(diǎn)：asphalt n.

a black, sticky material used for road surfaces. 瀝青；柏油

e.g. The workers laid fresh asphalt on the damaged road. 工人們?cè)趽p壞的路面上鋪設(shè)了新瀝青。

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