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The second Beijing E-Town Humanoid Robot Half Marathon on April 19 will field over 300 robots from 100-plus teams, up from 20 in 2025, with a new autonomous navigation category.

Beijing's E-Town district is hosting the world's largest humanoid robot race, with a fivefold increase in robot participants and a new autonomous navigation category.

Google Gemini and Anthropic Claude both ship tools to import rival chatbot data, signaling that user lock-in is now a front in the AI platform war.