Humanoid robot beats Usain Bolt’s 100m world record

The games, which are taking place in the National Speed Skating Oval built for the 2022 Winter Olympics, opened the same week as Beijing held the 2026 World Robot Conference, where companies showcased around 3,000 products, including humanoid robots.

Its 9.32-second performance surpassed the men's 100-metre world record of 9.58 seconds set by Bolt at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin in 2009, Reuters reports.

The robot, dubbed Lightning, reached a peak speed of 14.5 meters per second during a preparatory test event for the second World Humanoid Robot Games

The record-breaking performance marked the start of competition among humanoid robots.