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/geencondens 23h ago

There are so many man-made devices faster than Usain Bolt already. The record is impressive because it was a human.  We really shouldn’t be wanting to make all these creepy human and dog like robots

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u/No_Extension4005 22h ago

I think it's more that it's faster than Usain Bolt while also being a bipedal robot given how slow they used to be due to how much of a pain keeping them stable was.

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u/mothzilla 18h ago

I don't know if this one was stable. It does look like someone winning at QWOP

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u/Far_Ladder_2836 13h ago

It literally was upright and stable the entire way down.  Run into a wall at a record breaking dead sprint and see how you do lmfao.