Humanoid Robots Beat Usain Bolt's 100m Record at Beijing's 2026 World Robot Games
Posted on 26th Aug 2026 06:04:58 in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Tagged as: humanoid robots, robotics, AI, Beijing robot games, Tiangong Ultra
At the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games, a humanoid ran 100 metres in 9.39 seconds, faster than Usain Bolt's 9.58 world record, while 2,056 robots competed across 51 events. Here is what the records and the crashes reveal about the real state of humanoid robotics.