Robot Runs 100m in 9.39s: The Implications Matter More Than the Record

Let's start with the data. At the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games, a robot ran the 100-meter dash in 9.39 seconds, directly breaking Usain Bolt's human world record of 9.58 seconds. Sounds scary, but even scarier is this comparison table: at the inaugural games last year, the best 100m time was 21.50 seconds. In one year, going from 21 seconds to 9 seconds—that's faster than the robots themselves.