{"id":1430915,"date":"2026-08-22T19:53:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/faster-than-usain-bolt-chinese-humanoid-robot-sets-100-meter-record\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T19:53:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:53:44","slug":"faster-than-usain-bolt-chinese-humanoid-robot-sets-100-meter-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/faster-than-usain-bolt-chinese-humanoid-robot-sets-100-meter-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Faster than Usain Bolt: Chinese humanoid robot sets 100-meter record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chinese humanoid robot Lightning has set a new world record for the 100-meter dash, running in 9.32 seconds, faster than Usain Bolt&#8217;s world record of 9.58 seconds.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This is reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/chinese-robot-beats-usain-bolts-100m-world-record\/a-78468749?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-xml-mrss\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deutsche Welle<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> The record-breaking run took place on August 22 during a test competition ahead of the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing. Lightning, developed by Honor, reached a top speed of 14.5 m\/s, or 52.2 km\/h.<\/p>\n<p> Bolt&#8217;s world record for the 100 meters is 9.58 seconds. The Jamaican athlete set it in 2009, and the result remains unsurpassed among humans.<\/p>\n<p> Lightning is 169 cm tall. Before the competition, engineers increased the length of his legs from 95 cm to 1.05 m, which was supposed to improve the robot&#8217;s speed characteristics. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PzMqoBEbx84?si=6rS9CNHhqbnA7Rnm\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> This is not Lightning&#8217;s first sporting achievement in 2026. In April, the robot won the Beijing Half Marathon among humans, covering the 21 km distance in 50 minutes and 26 seconds.<\/p>\n<p> Earlier, another Chinese humanoid robot, Superman, from Unitree Robotics, reached a top speed of 12.66 m\/s during laboratory tests. This figure also exceeded Bolt&#8217;s top speed of 12.42 m\/s.<\/p>\n<p> However, after accelerating, Superman was unable to stop: the robot crashed into a wall and damaged a metal electrical shield.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese humanoid robot Lightning has set a new world record for the 100-meter dash, running in 9.32 seconds, faster than Usain Bolt&#8217;s world record of 9.58 seconds. This is reported by Deutsche Welle . The record-breaking run took place on August 22 during a test competition ahead of the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1430909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875,76896],"class_list":["post-1430915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-techno"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1430915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1430909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1430915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1430915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}