A humanoid robot built by Beijing-based X-Humanoid ran 100 metres in 9.39 seconds at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, surpassing Usain Bolt's human world record of 9.58 seconds by 0.19 seconds. The achievement, part of a competition featuring 2,000 robots across 51 events, has drawn mixed reactions from roboticists who note that sprinting on a predetermined track is far simpler for machines than complex tasks like object manipulation or navigation in unstructured environments.
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