Robot Beats Bolt: ‘Lightning’ Smashes 100m Human World Record at Beijing Humanoid Robot Games
A humanoid robot named Lightning, built by Honor, ran 100m in 9.32 seconds at the Beijing World Humanoid Robot Games, breaking Usain Bolt’s 9.58s human world record with a peak speed of 14.5 m/s. The 400m record also fell on opening day — inside the robot boom’s wildest year yet.
Unitree’s Wild IPO Week: 8,000x Oversubscribed, $50 Billion Valuation — and Robots Take the Field in Beijing
Unitree’s Shanghai STAR Market debut became the wildest week in humanoid robotics history: an IPO oversubscribed more than 8,000 times, raising roughly 610 million USD, with shares surging over 600% at the peak and the market value touching $66 billion. Meanwhile, Beijing opens the second World Humanoid Robot Games today with 2,056 machines competing. Capital and technology spotlights now converge on the humanoid robotics era.
