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Chinese humanoid robots just beat Usain Bolt’s 100m record and the human high-jump record, are humans already losing to machines?

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It seems technology is already outrunning humans not only in algorithms but also on the field. At a 100-meter sprint at the Beijing Robot Games, a humanoid robot is said to have beaten the human record of Jamaican athlete Usain Bolt. The robot named Lightning Bolt, achieved a result of 9.39 seconds, beating Bolt's record of 9.58 seconds, set in 2009, all before smashing into a blue wall.In a standing high jump, a humanoid robot was able to reach 2.88 meters, well above the 0.95 meters best result by a humanoid in last year's first edition of the games. It…

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