China’s robots race ahead
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- Fact 2: The winning 100-meter sprint was a glacial 21.50 seconds and the highest standing high jump was just 0.95 meters.
- Fact 3: Records fell, with one humanoid running the 100-meter sprint in 9.39 seconds, beating Usain Bolt’s 2009 world record.
- Fact 4: Another bot reached 2.88 meters in a standing high jump, nearly half a meter above the human high-jump record that has stood since 1993.
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on falling robots and the US-China AI race, follow Robert Hart.
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