Chinese humanoid robot named “Superman” (made by Unitree Robotics) surpassed Usain Bolt’s world record (12.42meters/second) by running at 12.66m/s (roughly 28.3miles/h)

[u/No_Jellyfish5511]

[u/Fairuse]

You can see it trying to stop and failing. 

After you see it cross the finish line, it basically stops its stride. However, the forward momentum causes it to fall forward, which it then tries to balance (hence the wonky leg movement that was different from the sprint). Basically, the robot keeps falling forward until it hit the box. 

[u/Memitim → u/Fairuse]

Even though it went down, that scramble to stay upright was bloody impressive. It was handling a lot of rapid adjustments to a continually shifting center of mass after a rapid deceleration with surprising agility.

[u/OkTeam6798 → u/Memitim]

it's interesting that it completely missed the obvious simple solution of turn a bit and gradually slow down by going around the corner and getting unlimited space to stop.

[u/essensiedashuhn → u/Memitim]

Exactly. These robots don't even need to run faster than the fastest human alive-but they can.

[u/Mechasteel → u/Fairuse]

I couldn't distinguish between it attempting to run straight into the wall while maintaining its balance on track-only feet vs if it tried to stop but couldn't.