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Laden with eggs, robots race up sacred Chinese mountain

Dozens of robots took on more than 3,000 steps up one of China’s most famous peaks on Monday, carrying eggs and watermelons in a race organisers billed as a test of real-world machine endurance, state media showed. For hundreds of years, Mount Tai — the tallest peak in China’s eastern Shandong province — was an important pilgrimage for Chinese emperors and features prominently in Chinese mythology. But the rugged terrain would prove a stern test for some competitors. One humanoid robot wearing a