A humanoid ran 100 metres in 9.39 seconds at Beijing's robot games
The second World Humanoid Robot Games closed after 5 days in Beijing. One humanoid ran the 100 metres in 9.39 seconds, under Usain Bolt's 2009 world record, and another cleared 2.88 metres in a standing high jump. Last year's winning sprint was 21.50 seconds and the best standing high jump 0.95 metres. In a separate factory test, Sanctuary AI reported a 99.5 per cent success rate and a 2.54 second cycle time over 313 insertion attempts; the figures are the company's own measurements.
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Times recorded on the Beijing track
The second World Humanoid Robot Games closed this week after 5 days at Beijing's National Speed Skating Oval. One humanoid ran the 100 metres in 9.39 seconds, under Usain Bolt's 2009 world record, and another cleared 2.88 metres in a standing high jump. At last year's games the winning sprint was 21.50 seconds and the best standing high jump 0.95 metres. Alongside sprinting, boxing and weightlifting the programme included bed-making, shelf stacking, parcel delivery and hammering nails. State-run outlet China Daily put 641 of the 666 teams as Chinese, drawn from 157 companies and 200 universities; AgiBot and Tien Kung took most of the medals between them.[1]
A factory cycle time the company measured itself
Humanoid robot maker Sanctuary AI said it has begun selling its software for industrial robots already installed on production lines, not only for its own Phoenix machine. The company's new CEO, Daniel Friedmann, reported a 99.5 per cent success rate and a 2.54 second cycle time in a flexible wire-plug insertion test at an automotive supplier. The figures are the company's own measurements. In the detail he gave, the test ran 40 minutes and included 313 insertion attempts, and the cycle time was benchmarked against the customer's existing line. The setup is still at proof-of-concept stage and no independent verification has been published.[2]
Two figures recorded under separate conditions
Some events at the Beijing games allowed teleoperation with a scoring penalty, and robots lost a leg mid-sprint, toppled under a barbell and caught fire. Tesla, Boston Dynamics and Figure did not enter. The wire-plug cycle time is a vendor figure from a 40 minute, 313-attempt test on arms already on a production line, still at proof-of-concept stage, with no independent verification published.[1], [2]
