Humanoid Robot Runs Half Marathon (more slowly than me)

0:03 Calarugas. Shock Media. There Johnny Mack with your five good news stories with another A locknest Monster up A locknest monster hunter Ian believes he has footage of the camera shy Nessy, possibly perhaps maybe carrying out a mating dance. Ian explains on close examination of the footage, there are actually two creatures breaking the surface. The first disturbance that rose up out of the water was of a smaller height and also not as long as the second. The second was longer and higher out of the water by at least four feet, with a distinct hump at the rear and a smaller one at the front. I believe the images represent two locknest monsters, which would make sense unless you know the single locknest monster lives for decades and decades and decades. In Ian's footage, two mysterious shapes can be surfacing in the distance. Ian, a veteran NeSSI hunter, believes the footage could show a courtship display. He said, it's the behavior of both objects that make this sighting intriguing.

1:06 Could it be something to do with breeding, a male NeSSI showing off to a female NeSSI to attract her attention or is it just feeding behavior? But if it were feeding behavior, I would imagine this behavior would be visible all the time on the surface. Ian estimates the first creature was ten to twelve feet long, while the second was fifteen to eighteen feet long. Ian logs on to watch the water from his home in Ireland. Over the years, he's racked up multiple entries in the official Luckness Monsters Sightings Register. Good news if you're in Asian short clawed otter, you're not extinct, but you knew that even though US humans hadn't seen you. In one hundred and eighty six years, forestry and officials in Nepal found an injured juvenile Asian short clawed otter at the confluence of two major rivers. They happen to send some images to the scientific community in the region, who realized that the otter had not been seen since eighteen thirty nine.

1:59 Local officials set it as it was found in a fragile and injured state. The forest officers decided to feed at nurse it, but they didn't know which species it belonged to. Good news for a forest outside Detroit. The Old Growth Forest Network is dedicated to protecting trees in the US, they have officially recognized thirty two acres of centuries old forest near Detroit. The grove is found in Humbug Marsh, just south of the Welcome Center in the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge, twenty miles from downtown Detroit. The Old Growth Forest Network aims to locate and designate at least one protected forest in every county of the US where a native forest can be sustained. Overall, that would include about seventy five percent of the counties nationwide.

2:40 Back in nineteen ninety eight, developers wanted to build stuff on it. One thousand local residents gathered to protest against the development, and their efforts helped save the native ecosystem. Nice job, there are you? Looking forward to the twenty twenty eight Los Angeles Summer Olympics, female athletes will be in the majority for the first time. The International Olympic Committee decided that the women's soccer tournament will be bigger than the men's edition, sixteen teams for women and now just twelve for men. At the Paris Olympics, there were sixteen men's teams and twelve in the women's The decision by the IOC board pushed the quota of athletes for LA to fifty point seven percent women and forty nine point three percent men. Two more women's teams were at it.

3:22 In water polo, both the men and women brackets will have twelve nations each. Boxing has one extra women's weight class to equal the men's lineup seven metal events. IOC Sports director Kit McConnell said, the message of gender equality is a really important one for us. We really thank LA twenty eight for sporting this. It's central to their vision as well. And good news for me. I can still run slightly faster than a robot. A humanoid robot recently ran a half marathon in Beijing. Now the robot was supported by human navigators, operators, engineers. I'm just out there and occasionally there's a water station. I'm doing this by myself robot. Anyway, the robot finished in two hours, forty minutes and forty two seconds. Now, I've done several half marathons, usually faster than the two hours, forty minutes forty two seconds by about a half hour. But I'm not gonna say that I've never handed in a two forty two awards were also given out to various robots for best endurance, best gait design, and most innovative form.

4:24 And that is your five good news stories for today. Have a good one.