Why the Decathlon is the ultimate fitness benchmark for humanoids

carlosdponx · x · 2026-08-29

The post proposes the Decathlon as a real fitness benchmark for humanoid robots because: 1. It involves 10 events, 1 machine, and 0 swaps, mirroring real-world scenarios; 2. It demands nearly every hard problem in robotics at once: strength, dexterity, endurance, balance, and survivability; 3. Nobody is close yet. The author also wrote a strict rulebook for this challenge.

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