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By Alan Brown
The full breakdown from the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing.
- 🏃 100m — Tiangong Ultra ran 9.39s. Honor's Lightning took second at 9.47. Both beat Bolt's 9.58.
- 📈 Last year the same robot family ran 21.50s. That's the real story — not the record, the slope.
- 🏃♂️ 400m — a robot ran 39.7s. Wayde van Niekerk's human record is 43.03.
- 🤸 Standing high jump — 2.88m, up from 0.95m last year.
- 🌍 666 teams. 2,056 robots. 16 countries. 51 events.
Context & limitations
Neither sprinter could stop. Tiangong veered into the barrier, Lightning collapsed and was carried off, and organisers had to lay a crash mat past the finish line. The leg length on Honor's robot was extended 10cm right before the games — purely to chase the number.
So the sprint is a spec, not a breakthrough. The actual shift: over 40% of this year's events required full autonomy, no operator. Last year most of it was piloted.
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