May 8, 2025

Humanoid Robot Runs Half Marathon (more slowly than me)

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Transcript

Highlights include a Loch Ness Monster hunter's potential footage of two creatures, the rediscovery of the Asian short-clawed otter after 186 years, the protection of an old-growth forest near Detroit, the historic increase in female athletes at the 2028 Los Angeles Summer Olympics, and a humanoid robot completing a half marathon in Beijing. Each story brings a positive and uplifting message for viewers.

00:00 Introduction and Loch Ness Monster Update
01:34 Rediscovery of the Asian Short-Clawed Otter
02:06 Old Growth Forest Network's Newest Addition
02:50 2028 Los Angeles Summer Olympics Preview
03:41 Humanoid Robot Runs Half Marathon
04:24 Conclusion

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Calarugas. Shock Media. There Johnny Mack with your five good

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news stories with another A locknest Monster up A locknest

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monster hunter Ian believes he has footage of the camera

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shy Nessy, possibly perhaps maybe carrying out a mating dance.

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Ian explains on close examination of the footage, there are

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actually two creatures breaking the surface. The first disturbance that

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rose up out of the water was of a smaller

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height and also not as long as the second. The

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second was longer and higher out of the water by

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at least four feet, with a distinct hump at the

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rear and a smaller one at the front. I believe

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the images represent two locknest monsters, which would make sense

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unless you know the single locknest monster lives for decades

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and decades and decades. In Ian's footage, two mysterious shapes

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can be surfacing in the distance. Ian, a veteran NeSSI hunter,

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believes the footage could show a courtship display. He said,

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it's the behavior of both objects that make this sighting intriguing.

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Could it be something to do with breeding, a male

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NeSSI showing off to a female NeSSI to attract her

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attention or is it just feeding behavior? But if it

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were feeding behavior, I would imagine this behavior would be

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visible all the time on the surface. Ian estimates the

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first creature was ten to twelve feet long, while the

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second was fifteen to eighteen feet long. Ian logs on

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to watch the water from his home in Ireland. Over

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the years, he's racked up multiple entries in the official

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Luckness Monsters Sightings Register. Good news if you're in Asian

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short clawed otter, you're not extinct, but you knew that

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even though US humans hadn't seen you. In one hundred

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and eighty six years, forestry and officials in Nepal found

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an injured juvenile Asian short clawed otter at the confluence

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of two major rivers. They happen to send some images

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to the scientific community in the region, who realized that

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the otter had not been seen since eighteen thirty nine.

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Local officials set it as it was found in a

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fragile and injured state. The forest officers decided to feed

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at nurse it, but they didn't know which species it

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belonged to. Good news for a forest outside Detroit. The

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Old Growth Forest Network is dedicated to protecting trees in

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the US, they have officially recognized thirty two acres of

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centuries old forest near Detroit. The grove is found in

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Humbug Marsh, just south of the Welcome Center in the

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Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge, twenty miles from downtown Detroit.

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The Old Growth Forest Network aims to locate and designate

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at least one protected forest in every county of the

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US where a native forest can be sustained. Overall, that

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would include about seventy five percent of the counties nationwide.

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Back in nineteen ninety eight, developers wanted to build stuff

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on it. One thousand local residents gathered to protest against

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the development, and their efforts helped save the native ecosystem.

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Nice job, there are you? Looking forward to the twenty

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twenty eight Los Angeles Summer Olympics, female athletes will be

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in the majority for the first time. The International Olympic

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Committee decided that the women's soccer tournament will be bigger

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than the men's edition, sixteen teams for women and now

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just twelve for men. At the Paris Olympics, there were

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sixteen men's teams and twelve in the women's The decision

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by the IOC board pushed the quota of athletes for

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LA to fifty point seven percent women and forty nine

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point three percent men. Two more women's teams were at it.

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In water polo, both the men and women brackets will

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have twelve nations each. Boxing has one extra women's weight

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class to equal the men's lineup seven metal events. IOC

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Sports director Kit McConnell said, the message of gender equality

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is a really important one for us. We really thank

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LA twenty eight for sporting this. It's central to their

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vision as well. And good news for me. I can

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still run slightly faster than a robot. A humanoid robot

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recently ran a half marathon in Beijing. Now the robot

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was supported by human navigators, operators, engineers. I'm just out

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there and occasionally there's a water station. I'm doing this

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by myself robot. Anyway, the robot finished in two hours,

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forty minutes and forty two seconds. Now, I've done several

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half marathons, usually faster than the two hours, forty minutes

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forty two seconds by about a half hour. But I'm

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not gonna say that I've never handed in a two

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forty two awards were also given out to various robots

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for best endurance, best gait design, and most innovative form.

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And that is your five good news stories for today.

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Have a good one.