RESOLVING THE LEDGER
RESOLVING THE LEDGER
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Two human records were smashed by robots competing in the Olympics-like World Humanoid Robot Games in China.
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Two human records were smashed by robots competing in the Olympics-like World Humanoid Robot Games in China.
Read this reportRobots are competing in China, showcasing new skills that may beat records set by humans. CBS News' Anna Coren reports from Beijing.
Read this reportThe second World Humanoid Robot Games have got underway in China, and records are falling.
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Robots exceeded human records at the World Robot Games over the weekend in Beijing's Olympic speed skating arena as China showcased its dominance in the industry. Dozens of humanoids and their human operators competed in events from athletics and boxing to football and martial arts.
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Tiangong Ultra (left) also broke the 400 meter world record during this year’s World Humanoid Robot Games. | Image: Lintao Zhang/Getty Images The 9.58-second 100-meter dash record set by Usain Bolt in 2009 has been outpaced by Chinese robots participating at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing. In a preliminary heat on Saturday, Tiangong Ultra, made by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, ran the distance in 9.39 seconds, followed by the Honor-developed Lightning at 9.47 seconds. It's one of several notable achievements to take place at the event, which can best be described...
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And they looked absolutely ridiculous doing it.
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More than 650 teams from across 16 countries are gathered in China for the World Humanoid Robot Games.
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The second-edition of the five-day competition kicked off in Beijing, China, on Saturday.
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AIPROPX has consolidated 13 reports from 10 outlets into a single canonical entry on “Robots have smashed human world records for the 100m sprint and high jump at China’s ‘robot Olympics’ — but the biggest hurdle is….” The covered outlets are based across 5 regions — US, UK, Other, International, and Europe.
The earliest report in this entry came from BBC News (Aug 22, 2026, 17:02 UTC); the most recent came from CBS News (Aug 24, 2026, 14:17 UTC).
Comparing the wording across sources, 9 named entities are referenced by multiple outlets and the phrase recurring most across the coverage is “humanoid robot”.
8 statements are carried by only one outlet within this set and are not echoed by the others.
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