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894 Humanoid ‘Lightning’ robot smashes the half-marathon record

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Stevie Bonifield @ The Verge · 04/20/2026 11:42 EDT

Humanoid ‘Lightning’ robot smashes the half-marathon record

An autonomous scarlet robot named "Lightning" finished a 13-mile race in Beijing on Sunday in just 50 minutes and 26 seconds, less than half the time of last year's fastest robot, which took two hours and 40 minutes. As Reuters reports, Du Xiaodi, one of the engineers who developed Lightning at smartphone company Honor, said […]

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