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Jamaican sprinter and Olympic champion who set the 100m and 200m world records, widely regarded as the fastest human ever timed.
The sprint number came from a company video of a three-month-old prototype. The listing is the durable fact: the first general-purpose robotics company on mainland China's market.
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China's locomotion stack closed a human gap in about a year. It closed it in events that take out perception, grasping and anything unrehearsed, which is most of a deployment.
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Tiangong Ultra beat four men's world records in robot-only categories at the Beijing games, but the only mark with a clean comparator is a standing high jump three times higher than last year's robot best.
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The Verge's tally from five days in the National Speed Skating Oval is worth more to anyone buying a humanoid than an edited demo reel, because it shows the spread of outcomes instead of the best take.
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The second World Humanoid Robot Games cut the machines' 100-metre time from 21.5 seconds to 8.64 in a year, while the dexterity events failed even with human operators in control gloves. That puts the bottleneck in the hands.
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A 45% slide from a 460% debut reads like a verdict on humanoid robots. The arithmetic says the market has not yet finished disagreeing with the offer price.
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The World Humanoid Robot Games reads as a volume-manufacture demonstration. The FCC import ban and Unitree's Pentagon listing leave Western buyers cut off from the supplier doing the demonstrating.
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The second World Humanoid Robot Games publishes which events allow a human at the controls. That list, not the sprint record, is the calibration for anyone buying a deployment timeline.
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