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Beijing Robot Games: humanoids take on sprints, football and tai chi

More than 2,000 robots are taking part in the Beijing Robot Games, where humanoid machines race, play football and perform tai chi. At the National Speed Skating Oval on Sunday, Tiangong Omni-04 won the 400-metre race for smaller robots in 45.66 seconds, while others fell or stopped before reaching the finish. The five-day competition is designed to test skills that robots may eventually need in real-world settings.

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Batch file automated a clean-up job, then fouled itself by deleting the wrong directory

Welcome to another installment of "Who, Me?" – the reader-contributed column in which The Register opens the working week with your tales of IT woe. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Pascal," who once worked for a company that had just acquired its first Exchange server, home to around 600 mailboxes. "The IT manager was keen we kept on top of the performance of the Information Store and suggested we take the box offline once a week to defrag it," Pascal told The Register.

Chinese humanoid robots beat Bolt's 100m time and human high-jump mark

It seems technology is already outrunning humans not only in algorithms but also on the field. At a 100-meter sprint at the Beijing Robot Games, a humanoid robot is said to have beaten the human record of Jamaican athlete Usain Bolt. The robot named Lightning Bolt, achieved a result of 9.39 seconds, beating Bolt's record of 9.58 seconds, set in 2009, all before smashing into a blue wall.