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Chinese Humanoid Robot Sets New 100-Meter Sprint Record in 8.86 Sec at Beijing Games

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BEIJING (AP) – A Chinese humanoid robot set a new 100-meter sprint record of 8.86 seconds in Beijing on Tuesday, 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 United States. The previous r…

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Usain Bolt is the fastest human sprinter in history, and since 2009, no human has managed to run the 100 meters faster than him, in 9.58 seconds. But now a robot has beaten him to the punch.

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A Chinese humanoid robot ran the 100 meters in 8.86 seconds at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on Tuesday, improving on the 9.39 seconds it set at the opening event. It was more than seven-tenths of a second faster than the men's world record of 9.58 seconds set by Jamaican sprint great Usain Bolt in 2009. Tiangong Ultra, developed by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, achieved the new time in the semifinals of the large rob…

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