Speed Articles

All articles tagged Speed on RoboSportsWorld.

• Tiangong Ultra vs. Unitree Superman: What Robot Sprint Records Really Measure — A practical engineering comparison of humanoid sprinting, from actuator trade-offs to the difference between peak speed and a timed 100-metre race.
• Autonomous Obstacle Navigation: What Humanoid Wall Crashes Can—and Cannot—Tell Us — Viral training crashes expose the importance of stopping distance and safety planning, but video alone cannot diagnose a robot's sensors or software.
• Bipedal Endurance Benchmarks: From 160 Minutes to a 50-Minute Half-Marathon — Beijing's winning humanoid half-marathon times changed dramatically between 2025 and 2026. Here is how to interpret the results without inventing hardware details.
• Robot Beats Usain Bolt's 100m World Record at the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games — A humanoid robot named Lightning ran 100m in 9.32 seconds at Beijing's 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games, beating Usain Bolt's human world record.
• Unitree’s “Superman” Robot Confirmed: 12.66 m/s Speed and a 2-Metre Jump — Unitree confirmed its Superman humanoid reached 12.66 m/s and cleared a two-metre jump, edging past recorded human top-end speed.
• World Records, Rubik's Cubes, and Basketball Shots: The Robots Rewriting the Record Books — From a Rubik's Cube solved in 0.103 seconds to a basketball shot from 24 metres, machines are setting benchmarks in 2025 and 2026 that would have seemed impossible a decade ago.
• A Robot Just Broke the Half-Marathon World Record — And It Wasn't Even Close — In April 2026, a humanoid robot running for Honor crossed the finish line in Beijing in 50 minutes and 26 seconds — more than seven minutes faster than the human world record.
• Meet Bolt: The Fastest Humanoid Robot Ever Built — Chinese startup MirrorMe Technology has unveiled a 175cm humanoid robot with a peak speed of 10 metres per second — within touching distance of Usain Bolt's all-time sprint record.
• Beijing's Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon: Tiangong Ultra Wins the World's First Bot vs. Human Road Race — The world's first half-marathon for humanoid robots ran in Beijing in April 2025 — Tiangong Ultra finished the 21.1km course in 2 hours 40 minutes. Here is what happened, who competed, and why it matters for robot athletics.
• Unitree H1: The Humanoid Robot That Runs Faster Than Most People — Chinese robotics company Unitree's H1 humanoid robot reached a running speed of 3.3 meters per second — faster than the average human jog — using reinforcement learning trained entirely in simulation.
• Cassie the Robot Ran a 5K Without Falling Over — Here's What Made It Possible — In 2021, Agility Robotics' bipedal robot Cassie completed a 5-kilometer run on a single battery charge. The achievement required solving problems in reinforcement learning and bipedal control that researchers had worked on for decades.