Lightning reaches peak speed of 14.5 metres per second
“Lightning reaches peak speed of 14.5 metres per second during preparatory testBEIJING () – A humanoid robot developed by Chinese smartphone maker Honor ran 100 …”
Lightning reaches peak speed of 14.5 metres per second during preparatory testBEIJING () – A humanoid robot developed by Chinese smartphone maker Honor ran 100 meters in 9.32 seconds, China's state broadcaster reported on Saturday, beating the human world record held by Jamaican sprinting great Usain Bolt.
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, which opened in Beijing on Saturday. The performance surpassed the 9.58-second men's 100-metre world record set by Bolt at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin in 2009.
China has been promoting humanoid robots as a strategic emerging industry, with policymakers and companies betting that advances in AI and hardware will accelerate their deployment in manufacturing, logistics and consumer applications. Lightning also won the 21km Beijing half marathon in April in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, faster than the elite men's human world-record pace.
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The robot stood 169cm tall and had 95cm legs at the half marathon.
Researchers have since lengthened its legs by 10cm to 1.05 metres ahead of the World Humanoid Robot Games, China Central Television reported.
Written by Sara Ali
Aman-e-Pakistan Senior Journalist & Bureau Reporter
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