Exclusive: TianGong Ultra stunned spectators at the World Humanoid Robot Games when it covered 100 meters in 8.64 seconds, almost a full second faster than Usain Bolt's world record. A week after his robot outran humanity's fastest man, Jack Guo is already chasing a harder goal.
‘We want to turn high performance into high reliability and high usability,’ he told Reuters in his first interview with foreign media
Robot "Tiangong" clocked 38.15 seconds in the Large Group 400-meter race at the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on Sunday, beating the human world record of 43.03 seconds set by South African athlete Wayde van Niekerk at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
China's Tiangong Ultra made headlines in August after smashing multiple records at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing. Reuters gets behind-the-scenes access to the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center. Eduardo Baptista has more
Absolutely insane jump…
X-Humanoid Tiangong just jumped 3.4 metres from a standing position. The torque on this thing is insane.
We now have humanoid robots that can run fast, jump far and jump high.