Then, sealing its Olympian credentials, the robot blazes down a track at a top speed of 12.66 meters per second, Unitree claims. Even Usain Bolt isn’t that fast. During his record-setting 100-meter sprint in 2009 of 9.58 seconds, the Jamaican athlete reached a top speed of around 12.2 meters per second.

China’s booming humanoid robot industry may have just produced a robot faster than the fastest human. Unitree unveiled a new humanoid robot on Monday that the company says can run faster and jump higher than a person.

A humanoid robot ran superfast during the World Humanoid Robot Games in China. The robot ran so fast that it failed to stop in time, crashing into the safety wall. The impact was so strong that the robot,