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Posted on 08/26/2026 11:00:16 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A Chinese humanoid robot set a new 100-meter sprint record of 8.86 seconds in Beijing on Tuesday (Aug 25), beating its robot competitors — and the fastest recorded human time.
The race was part of China's World Humanoid Robot Games, an Olympic-style competition now in its second year in Beijing. The event is also a showcase for China's rapid advances in robotics amid an intensifying technology rivalry with the US
The previous robot record of 9.39 seconds had been set just three days earlier, on Saturday.
For comparison, the men's 100-meter world record is 9.58 seconds, set by Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt in 2009.
Experts are amazed to see such progress in the humanoid robot industry.
"This is a significant milestone — not simply because the robot ran faster than a human, but because of what it takes to make a bipedal robot run at this speed," said Dennis Hong, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles.
"As speed increases, balance, control, impacts, actuator performance, and mechanical robustness all become much more challenging," said Hong.
The record-breaking robot fell after hitting the finish line, a padded barrier, with sparks flying from its waist.
Hong pointed out that the fall leads to more meaningful and difficult questions: whether robots can move and stop safely, recognise unexpected obstacles, recover from mistakes and continue working, the capabilities that ultimately make them more useful.
The Games feature over 1,300 competitions involving more than 2,000 robots in 51 events like running, long jump and table tennis, as well as ballroom dancing.
Unlike the traditional Olympics, the robots also compete in teams in real-world scenarios, including household tasks, hotel services and emergency response.
"'Housekeeper' and 'caregiver' robots are still in the pilot and validation phase," China's official newspaper People's Daily said on Monday, "(but) challenges are precisely where the focus of development lies … China's robotics industry is evolving toward higher quality and innovation."
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Sorry I don’t get why this is a big deal.
I mean in this day and age it was an inevitably was it not?
And its non-verbal too. Maybe it can become a professor at Cambridge.
Check out how they stop the thing, they have to run it into a padded wall. Lol!
Not exactly “bug free” if you ask me. 😂
The thing doesn’t have a head bro......that’s creepy as hell.
Easy to laugh now, but think where we were with this stuff ten or even five years ago. Where do you think we’ll be in another 5, 10, or 20 years from now?
Elon Musk is making HUGE investments in this area.
I’m sure they laughed at the Wright Brothers, too, back around 1902-1903.
Yeah I agree.
Machines have been faster than humans for 2 centuries, horses long before that.
“But this one runs on humanlike legs.” Ok cool I guess.
Fron the headline, I figured it was either the Turtle of Swalwell... Couldn’t be the Turtle, must be Swalwell....LOL
No robot shall ever run faster than 21 mph, for if it did it would surely suffocate.
Real or more Chinese Communist Party AI Fake ? LOL
Don ‘t care much, winter Olympics take place in snowy places and I’d rather be in Florida. Although ice skating is often amazing. Figure skating.
“Where do you think we’ll be in another 5, 10, or 20 years from now?”
More jobs now done by us humans will be done by brainy, brawny machines. Note also that human employees are expensive with their expected bennies that machines don’t need.
There are two frontiers now: the enormous data centers, whatever they’re doing, and robots.
Also there’s more and more surveillance, facial recognition, license place reading.
Very.
LOL.
"Flying Machines Which Do Not Fly", New York Times. , October 9, 1903
[It] might be assumed that the flying machine which will really fly might be evolved by the combined and continuous efforts of mathematicians and mechanicians in from one million to ten million years... No doubt the problem has attractions for those it interests, but to the ordinary man it would seem as if effort might be employed more profitably.
https://delanceyplace.com/view-archives.php?p=301 has a more complete version.
Ironically on the day this was published, the Wright Brothers were starting to unpack and assemble the plane they brought from Dayton, Ohio to Kitty Hawk, NC.
And it stops by face-planting into a wall.
Now THAT is impressive.
That should be posted on ALL threads 🧵🧵🧵
from The New York Times
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