China's New 'Superman' Robot Is A Back-Flipping, Record-Breaking Powerhouse
The robot runs at 12.66 meters per second and jumps about 2 meters, Unitree says, as it promotes its latest model before a Shanghai competition.
- On Monday, Chinese robotics firm Unitree unveiled "Superman," a new humanoid robot that the company claims reaches a top speed of 12.66 meters per second, surpassing all recorded human running speeds.
- The robot leaped 2 meters in a video, exceeding the human standing jump record of 1.7 meters according to Guinness World Records and outpacing the roughly 12.2 meters per second speed reached by a Jamaican athlete during a record 100-meter sprint.
- Unitree developed the machine in just over three months, boasted in a social media post, with significant room for further improvement ahead of this year's World Humanoid Robot Games in Shanghai starting Saturday, August 22.
- The announcement follows Unitree's recent IPO that raised over $900 million, with the company now trading on the Shanghai Stock Exchange as part of a potential wave of new Chinese tech firms going public.
- While the robot showcases athletic capabilities, wider commercial application remains "far away," according to Wang Zhuo, partner of Shanghai Zhuozhu Investment Management, who noted current sales stem from research and demonstrations.
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China's 'Superman' robot claims to be faster than Usain Bolt, can jump 2 metres
China's Unitree has unveiled a humanoid robot dubbed ‘Superman’, claiming it can reach 12.66 metres per second and perform a 2-metre standing jump. The speed claim has sparked comparisons with Usain Bolt's peak sprint speed.
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Unitree says that its new “Superman” humanoid robot can run faster than any recorded human. The Chinese robotics company revealed the new model on Monday, hyping up its athletic capabilities in a common marketing shtick. In a thirty second video, the robot leaps around two meters into the air, which is well over the human standing jump record of 1.7 meters, according to Guinness World Records. Then, sealing its Olympian credentials, the robot bl…
The Chinese robot manufacturer Unitree has developed a new robot named ‘Superman’ that can run faster than Usain Bolt. Usain Bolt is officially the fastest man in the world. The Jamaican ran the 100 meters in 9.58 seconds in 2009.
Robot runs faster than the fastest human on Earth (although braking is less smooth). Watch the video on VRT NWS: news.
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