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Robot Breaks 100M Dash Record | Charlotte News
A robot just shattered the 100-meter dash record at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, clocking in at 8.84 seconds—breaking its own record from the day before. These games, China’s showcase for cutting-edge robotics, featured over 2,000 bots competing in everything from soccer to boxing to sprinting. The winner, Tiangong Ultra from X-Humanoid (a startup founded last year), has been on a winning streak, with earlier times of 8.86 and even 9.39 seconds. But things got wild when robots crashed into the finish line, sparking fires and requiring fire extinguishers—and most were carted off…
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