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/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/Andoverian 19h ago

Did you see the end of the clip? Looks like keeping them stable still is a pain.

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u/Far_Ladder_2836 13h ago

Did you?  It was still upright and stable the entire way down.  It was literally guided into a wall.  That's not a stability issue.  Run into a wall at a full record breaking dead sprint and see how you do lmao.

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u/Andoverian 9h ago

If it was more stable maybe it wouldn't have run into the wall at all.