Chinese robot beats Usain Bolt’s 100m record

A Chinese humanoid robot beat Usain Bolt's 100m sprint record, clocking 9.39s for its sprint, eclipsing the 9.58s record by Bolt in 2009.

The robot “Tiangong Ultra” developed by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, notched the achievement during the sprinting heats at the World Humanoid Robot Games on Saturday (Aug 22). It narrowly beat out HONOR’s robot dubbed “Lightning”. which made it across the finish line in 9.47s. #china #chinanews #2026worldhumanoidrobotgames

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