Chinese\u00a0humanoid robots broke records\u00a0set by humans, including beating Usain Bolt\u2019s 100-meter sprint world record, on the opening day of the Olympics-like World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on Saturday.<\/p>\n
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More than 2,000 humanoid robots were participating in the event, the organizer said.<\/p>\n
The five-day games, now in its second year, are a spectacle demonstrating China\u2019s rapid progress in\u00a0advanced robotics\u00a0as the technology race with the U.S. heats up, with 51 events and more than 1,000 competitions taking place including running, table tennis and soccer.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
China\u00a0makes the majority of\u00a0the world\u2019s humanoid robots. The U.S. has stepped up scrutiny of robots from\u00a0the country.<\/p>\n
Last month, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission\u00a0announced a ban\u00a0on imports of new foreign-made humanoid robots. The FCC cited national security reasons in a move that targeted China. The Pentagon recently also\u00a0added Unitree, one of China\u2019s leading humanoid robot makers, to its list of companies that it deemed have ties with the Chinese military. Beijing has hit back at the accusations.<\/p>\n
At Saturday\u2019s opening of the robot games, the organizer and robot makers said that Chinese humanoid robots defeated human world records, as hundreds of humanoid robots marched in formation onto the field in a massive display of synchronized coordination.<\/p>\n
At a 100-meter sprint, a humanoid robot achieved a result of 9.39 seconds, beating the human record of 9.58 seconds set by Jamaican athlete Bolt in 2009.<\/p>\n
In a standing high jump, a humanoid robot was able to reach 2.88 meters, well above the 0.95 meters best result by a humanoid in last year\u2019s\u00a0first edition of the games. It surpassed the human high jump record of 2.45 meters set by Cuba\u2019s Javier Sotomayor in 1993.<\/p>\n
Both robots were from Beijing-based X-Humanoid.<\/p>\n
Before the opening, a humanoid robot from Chinese smartphone company Honor completed a 100-meter sprint in a record of 9.32 seconds during a trial of the games, the company said, at a peak speed of 14.5 meters per second.<\/p>\n
Still,\u00a0experts say\u00a0humanoid robots are still mostly used for demonstrations, performances and research \u2014 at least for now \u2014 and it will still take time to achieve mass real-world deployment.<\/p>\n
Some spectators at the robot games said they were excited about the humanoid robots\u2019 quickly improving abilities.<\/p>\n
Humanoid robots are \u201cevolving rapidly,\u201d said Li Yanfeng, an education worker and a Beijing resident.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt first, I wasn\u2019t very accepting of\u00a0artificial intelligence. I was even a bit resistant to it, because of the possibility that it might replace or displace humans,\u201d she said. \u201cBut now that I see this development is unstoppable, I decided to come and take a look.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThese sports are perfectly normal for humans, but now robots can do them. I find it amazing,\u201d said Yang Shangzheng, another spectator.<\/p>\n
Liu Tao, who was watching the games with his son, said that he was hoping to see \u201cthe best robots China currently has to offer.\u201d<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s robot games \u2014 which the organizer said has 16 countries participating, among them Germany, Japan and the U.S. \u2014 also include other events such as weightlifting and tug of war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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