An Olympic Sprinter Loses a Race to a Robot (Video)

Are you impressed by the robot?

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We're not going to lie to you. Before we saw this clip, we had absolutely no idea who British sprinter Adam Gemili was. But apparently, he's an Olympic sprinter who took part in the 2012 Summer Olympics and narrowly missed making the 100-meter final. He also apparently got into a Twitter beef with a robot—yes, a robot!—recently and settled the score with the robot by racing it. The result was this video.

We don't know whether to be impressed by the robot or not. On the one hand, he just beat an Olympic sprinter in a race. On the other, he was on wheels and had a clear advantage over Gemili. Watch the clip and see what you think. Does this robot have a future in track and field?

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[via Daily Jolt]

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