{"id":746299,"date":"2026-08-22T15:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T15:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/746299\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T15:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T15:46:12","slug":"chinese-robot-runs-100m-sprint-quicker-than-usain-bolts-world-record-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/746299\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese robot runs 100m sprint quicker than Usain Bolt\u2019s world record | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

A \u2060robot named Lightning \u2060has run \u200bthe 100m in 9.32 seconds, \u2060beating the human world \u2060record, China\u2019s \u200bstate broadcaster \u200chas reported.<\/p>\n

The humanoid, developed by Chinese smartphone manufacturer Honor, \u200creached a peak speed of 14.5 metres per second during \u200ca test event for \u200bthe second World Humanoid Robot Games, which \u2060begin on Saturday. The \u200bperformance surpassed \u200bthe \u200b9.58sec men\u2019s \u200b100m world record \u200bset \u200bby Usain Bolt<\/a> 17 years ago at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin.<\/p>\n

A robot dives for the ball during a tennis match with a human player in Beijing. Photograph: Florence Lo\/Reuters<\/p>\n

China has been promoting humanoid robots as an emerging industry, with policymakers and companies \u200cbetting that advances in AI and hardware will accelerate their deployment in manufacturing, logistics \u200band consumer applications.<\/p>\n

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Lightning also won the Beijing half marathon in April<\/a> in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, faster than the men\u2019s world record. The robot stood 169cm tall and \u200bhad \u200b95cm-long legs at \u200bthe half marathon. Researchers have since lengthened \u200bits legs \u200cby 10\u200bcm for these Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A \u2060robot named Lightning \u2060has run \u200bthe 100m in 9.32 seconds, \u2060beating the human world \u2060record, China\u2019s \u200bstate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-746299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}