World Record Articles

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• The Humanoid Biomechanics Breakdown: Understanding the 2.88-Metre Jump — A reported 2.88-metre humanoid high jump raises important questions about launch energy, body configuration, landing control and fair record comparisons.
• 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.