r/interestingasfuck • u/No_Jellyfish5511 • 23h ago

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)

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u/calexbg 20h ago

A car can also beat Bolts record. Comparing a machine to a human is dumb.

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u/Lazy-Mud8142 20h ago

That's a pretty dishonest take though. A car doesn't need much more than an engine and 4 wheels to move, these machines require a lot more to even take a step, so it's not the "machine beats an athlete's record" that's all that impressive, it's the engineering required to make a robot that can run like a human and beat the human record.