Honor's Lightning robot completed the Beijing half-marathon in 50:26, beating the human record of 57:20, as 112 teams and 300+ robots showcased China's $138B humanoid industry.

A humanoid robot built by Chinese firm Unitree Robotics has reportedly reached a peak running speed of 10 meters per second, roughly 22.4 miles per hour, during controlled testing. If accurate, that puts a two-legged machine within arm’s reach of the average speed Usain Bolt maintained during his world-record 100-meter dash.

The winning time is a massive improvement over last year’s race, when the fastest robot finished in two hours and 40 minutes.

On the 16th of last month, a humanoid robot made by a Chinese company appeared on the Chinese state broadcaster CCTV’s Lunar New Year special program *Chunjie Wanhui* (Spring Festival Gala) and performed a group dance and kung fu martial arts demonstration.

When researchers asked more than 1,000 Americans to assign colors to robots according to the robot’s job, they found that biases familiar from the human workplace resurfaced—and that the people