Hacker News with Generative AI: Human-Robot Interaction

Chinese robots lose against humans in half-marathon (dw.com)
Beijing held a half-marathon where humanoid robots competed against humans. Organizers called the race a show of technological prowess and said they did not expect the robots to win — and they didn't.
Tesla's prototype Optimus robots were controlled by humans (arstechnica.com)
After Elon Musk provided his "long-term" vision for autonomous, humanoid robots at last week's "We, Robot" event, we expressed some skepticism about the autonomy of the Optimus prototypes sent out for a post-event mingle with the assembled, partying humans. Now, there's been a raft of confirmation that human teleoperators were indeed puppeting the robot prototypes for much of the night.
New framework allows robots to learn via online human demonstration videos (techxplore.com)