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Chinese Humanoid Robots Smash Usain Bolt’s 100-Meter Record

NBC News · August 24, 2026 at 8:28 AM

Chinese Humanoid Robots Smash Usain Bolt’s 100-Meter Record

At the World Humanoid Robot Games, a sports competition in China, robots showed they can run faster than humans, with two smashing Usain Bolt’s 100-meter sprint.

The display of technological might is also meant to display feats of science.

NBC's Janis Mackey Frayer reports for TODAY.

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