This is the moment a humanoid robot smashed Usain Bolt‘s 100m world record, right before it was stretchered off the track at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, China.
After beating the fastest man in the world, the two speedy robots failed to decelerate in time as they hurtled toward a safety mattress and both collapsed.
Akin to an injured athlete, the robots were lifted onto stretchers and carried away to be fixed.
One of the humanoid robots ran 100m in 9.39 seconds, beating the human world record set by Jamaican sprinting great Usain Bolt who ran it in 9.58 seconds.
More than 2,000 robots gathered
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