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A quadruped robot designed to complete a marathon on a single battery charge


RAIBO2, an energy-efficient quadruped robot, completed a full marathon in 4 hours, 19 minutes and 52 seconds on a single battery charge, achieving a total cost of transport of 0.25 that surpasses the human benchmark of 0.37.

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