A Chinese humanoid robot sets a new 100-meter sprint record at Beijing Games
BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese humanoid robot set a new 100-meter sprint record of 8. 86 seconds in Beijing on Tuesday, beating its robot competitors — and the fastest recorded human time. The race was part of China’s World Humanoid Robot Games, an Olympic-style competition now in its second year in Beijing. The event is also a showcase for China’s rapid advances in robotics amid an intensifying technology rivalry with the U. S. The previous robot record of 9. 39 seconds had been set just on...
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