FEATUREDAI HOT (Curated Pool)· aihot-apiZH14:13 · 08·22
→2nd World Humanoid Robot Games opens in Beijing with 2,056 robots
The 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games opened tonight at Beijing's National Speed Skating Oval. 666 teams and 2,056 robots are competing—four times the robot count of the first edition. TianGong Ultra clocked 9.39s in the 100m heats, beating Usain Bolt's 9.58s human record, and cleared 2.88m in a standing high jump. Honor's 'Lightning' robot ran 400m in 41.95s, also faster than the human world record. Events expanded from 26 to 51, adding tug-of-war, table tennis, and dexterous-hand tasks. All competitive events are fully autonomous with no remote control. The post doesn't specify how many days the games run or whether there's a public stream.
#TianGong Ultra#Honor Lightning#Booster T2
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TianGong Ultra hit 9.39s in the 100m and a 2.88m standing jump, but these aren't human comparisons—no muscle fatigue curve, different physics entirely.
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The numbers are wild: TianGong Ultra clocked 9.39s in the 100m, 0.19s faster than Bolt's record, and cleared a 2.88m standing jump when the human assisted-jump record is 2.45m. Honor's 'Lightning' ran 400m in 41.95s, also under the human world record.
I'd discount the human-vs-robot framing. Robots don't deal with lactic acid or muscle tears—joint torque and motor response are a completely different physics problem. These numbers show hardware limits, not a fair race.
The real shift is the rule change: all competitive events are fully autonomous, no remote control. Robots have to run on their own vision and decision-making, get up after falling, and finish. 2,056 robots across 51 events, from tug-of-war to picking up beans with tweezers—four times the robot count of last year. The post doesn't say how many days the games run or whether there's a public stream, which is a gap.
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