China's humanoid robot creates Guinness world record after walking 106.286 km (348,707 ft 4.322 in) in 56 hours. The robot, AgiBot A2, built by Agibot Innovation in Shanghai, was optimized between April and May of 2025 to avoid falling during hundreds of hours of continuous operation. On 17 August, the robot successfully completed a 24-hour fully autonomous walk in high temperatures nearing 40°C.
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- Pope Leo XIV visits Ankara's Ataturk Mausoleum during his first foreign trip. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan welcomed Pope Leo at the Presidential Palace. - Soyuz spacecraft blasts off for the International Space Station – with a Russian and American crew on board. Crew members include NASA astronaut Chris Williams, Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Mikaev. - This day in history: In 1895, Swedish dynamite millionaire Alfred Nobel signed his last will. In this will - Nobel specified that a bulk of his fortune would be set aside as a fund. This fund would be used for prizes to "Those who shall have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind”.This led to the establishment of the Nobel Prize - that we know today.
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