{"id":18667,"date":"2011-02-24T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T08:41:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-02-24T10:41:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T08:41:00","slug":"world-s-first-robot-marathon-kicks-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/18667-world-s-first-robot-marathon-kicks-off.html","title":{"rendered":"World&#039;s first robot marathon kicks off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"BodyP\">The race kicked off Thursday with the 1-foot  (30-centimeter) -tall, battery-charged robots competing around a  110-yard (100-meter) racetrack. They will have to cover 26 miles (42  kilometers).<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">Japanese robot maker and event organizer Vstone Co.  says the &#8220;Robo Mara Full&#8221; race in Osaka will demonstrate the machines&#8217;  durability and maneuverability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">Vstone robots took an early lead, while two entrants by  Osaka University of Engineering teams got off to a shaky start. The  race is expected to last through Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">Vstone CEO Nobuo Yamato hopes the event will become international in the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/313909-World-s-first-robot-marathon-started\"><strong>Robot marathon<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#039;s first robot marathon is under way in western Japan, with five two-legged participants racing on an indoor track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}