Usain Bolt’s 100m record beaten by humanoid robot at Beijing games

Chinese humanoid robots broke records set by humans, including Usain Bolt’s 100m sprint world record, on the opening day of the Olympics-like World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on Saturday.

More than 2,000 humanoid robots were participating in the event, organisers said.

In a 100-metre sprint, a humanoid robot achieved a result of 9.39 seconds, beating the human record of 9.58 seconds set by Jamaican athlete Bolt in 2009.

In a standing high jump, a humanoid robot was able to reach 2.88m, well above the 0.95m best result by a humanoid in last year’s first edition of the games. It surpassed the human high jump record of 2.45m set by Cuba’s Javier Sotomayor in 1993.

The five-day games, now in their second year, are a spectacle demonstrating China’s rapid progress in advanced robotics as the technology race with the US heats up. There are 51 events and more than 1,000 competitions taking place, including running, table tennis and football.

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