Beijing robot games reward autonomy, and Tiangong Ultra beat two human records
At the opening of Beijing’s second World Humanoid Robot Games Saturday, a headless humanoid named Tiangong Ultra ran the 100 meter dash in 9.39 seconds.
It beats the human record held by Usain Bolt, giving China’s robot makers their biggest athletics headline yet.
A humanoid robot developed by China’s Beijing Innovation Center of Humanoid Robotics ran 100 meters in 9.39 seconds, beating the human world record held by Jamaican sprinting great Usain Bolt https://t.co/z0D4H4Vco6 pic.twitter.com/EYuum0iwA8
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Humanoid robots beat two human world records
State broadcaster CCTV measured the sprint at 9.39 seconds. This time is faster than the 9.58 seconds Bolt achieved in 2009. A press release by X-Humanoid listed the run time as a slightly faster 9.32 seconds.
The same model robot raced again on Sunday. It took 38.16 seconds to cross 400 meters, later adjusted to 38.15, taking almost five seconds off the previous record for the distance.
The Tiangong Ultra was developed by a government backed research center in Beijing.
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