Humanoid robots smash Usain Bolt’s 100-meter record

Tiangong Ultra (left) besides broke the 400 metre satellite grounds during this year’s World Humanoid Robot Games. | Image: Lintao Zhang/Getty Images

The 9.58-second 100-meter dash grounds acceptable by Usain Bolt successful 2009 has been outpaced by Chinese robots participating astatine the World Humanoid Robot Games successful Beijing. In a preliminary vigor connected Saturday, Tiangong Ultra, made by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation ​Center, ran the region successful 9.39 seconds, followed by the Honor-developed Lightning astatine 9.47 seconds.

It's 1 of respective notable achievements to instrumentality spot astatine the event, which tin champion beryllium described arsenic a benignant of yearly robot olympics that's designed to showcase advancements successful bipedal bot technology. After launching successful 2025, 2,056 robots from 16 countries are participating successful this year's …

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