China’s booming humanoid robot industry may have just produced a robot faster than the fastest human.
Unitree unveiled a new humanoid robot on Monday that the company says can run faster and jump higher than a person.
In a video posted to social media, the robot, which Unitree is calling “Superman,” is shown making a two-meter standing jump and reaching a top speed of 12.66 meters per second (roughly 28.3 miles per hour).
That would put Superman’s top speed slightly above Usain Bolt’s peak speed of 12.2 meters per second during his record-breaking 100-meter sprint in 2009.
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