AMERICANALMANAC (Alan Benson) - Chinese robots outrun Usain Bolt's record at Beijing's humanoid games — as U.S. scrambles to restrict the technology
Humanoid robots built by Chinese firms shattered human world records in the 100-meter sprint and high jump at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, a display of rapid technological progress that lands weeks after Washington moved to ban imports of foreign-made humanoid robots on national security grounds. A robot built by Beijing-based X-Humanoid crossed […] The post Chinese robots outrun Usain Bolt's record at Beijing's humanoid games — as U.S. scrambles to restrict the technology appeared first on American Almanac .
Humanoid robots built by Chinese firms shattered human world records in the 100-meter sprint and high jump at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, a display of rapid technological progress that lands weeks after Washington moved to ban imports of foreign-made humanoid robots on national security grounds. A robot built by Beijing-based X-Humanoid crossed the 100-meter finish line in 9.39 seconds on Saturday, beating Usain Bolt's 2009 world record of 9.58 seconds. Another X-Humanoid machine cleared 2.88 meters in the standing high jump, nearly half a meter above Javier Sotomayor's 1993 human record of 2.45 meters. Just a year ago, at the first edition of these games, the best a humanoid robot could manage in the standing high jump was…Open