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Approximately 2,000 humanoid robots competed at the second World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, with robot Lightning running 100 meters in 9.32 seconds to beat Usain Bolt’s human world record of 9.58 seconds, while football, boxing, and weightlifting events produced a stream of spectacular failures alongside the milestones.
Unitree Robotics has unveiled Superman, a new humanoid robot that achieves a standing jump of over 2 meters – exceeding the human world record of 1.90 meters – and a top speed of 12.66 meters per second, surpassing Usain Bolt’s peak of 12.42 meters per second, developed in just over three months.
Unitree’s H1 robot has recorded a peak sprint speed of 10 meters per second on an athletics track, approaching Usain Bolt’s average race speed of 10.44 meters per second, as Chinese manufacturers push bipedal locomotion toward the limits of human athletic performance.