Humanoid Robots Race the 100m — and One Finishes in 24.3 Seconds

Japan's humanoid robot athletics event drew attention as a bipedal machine completed a 100-meter qualifier, a concrete marker of how far physical-world robotics has come.

At what was billed as a world humanoid robot athletics event in Japan, a bipedal robot named Hitomin completed a 100-meter qualifying heat with a recorded time of 24.3 seconds, as documented with video by @GMO_AIR under the hashtag #世界人型ロボット運動会.

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