China’s New Robot "Bolt" Just Broke the Human Speed Limit

So, China just broke the world record for the world's fastest humanoid robot. Of course, we have to talk about this. So, ladies and gentlemen, we have a new world record. This is a two-legged humanoid robot named Bolt. And this thing just hit 10 m/ second, which is actually fast enough to run the 100 m dash in 10 seconds flat. Okay, that is shattering the previous humanoid speed record by nearly three times. Now, the crazy thing about this, okay, so now if you compare this to the average human, an average human speed when they're running or sprinting, and yes, this is an AI generated clip. I couldn't make a clip of someone sprinting, the tech just wouldn't work. It is actually around 12 mph. And I know that doesn't sound fast, but guys, we are not comparing this to complete athletes here. The average human sprinting is 12 mph, which of course does sound pretty quick, but you have to remember that guys, when you compare this to the actual fastest of the fast Olympic athletes like Usain Bolt, that is all the way up to 27 mph, guys. And looking at this robot, guys, this is a robot that maxes out at 22. 4 mph, which is pretty crazy because that just smashes the previous human record. Okay, the previous best for a full-size humanoid robot was actually 4 m/s. Okay, and that wasn't, you know, anywhere near what this robot can do. And it's pretty crazy at how this company's managed to achieve it. Now, you might be thinking, okay, this is clearly remarkably impressive. But I think what most people don't realize is that this company is only 2 years old. I need to show you guys something because the further I went down this rabbit hole of what this company is trying to achieve, you will see that this is a crazy story and it's going to get crazier. So basically this company has had a previous product. Okay. And the Miram Technology Shanghai robotic startup was founded in 2024. Okay. This is actually you know spun out of the Jazang University Hangza International Science and Technology Center. They were basically focusing on athletic robotics, deep integration with AI, in-house actuators, differentiable simulation and motion learning to push the speed and agility beyond human levels. This was their previous product. They were a company that were completely focused on just sheer agility and humanoid robotics. And I don't think there is any other company that is doing this at this level. Their previous product, as I was saying, is the Black Panther. This Black Panther was basically a robot that was designed to solve high-speed locomotion physics. And this quadriped was essentially a research project where they wanted to see how fast can you make a humanoid robot or a dogged robot or a quadriped robot, whatever you want to call it, and how quick could we make it if we pushed everything to the edge. And you can see they basically decided to use lightweight high power legs, carbon fiber limb structures, high torque toweight actuators, spring assisted joints, impact leg design. And this was crucial because these sprinting robots experience huge ground reaction forces. And without those, the humanoid robots fail. And you have to understand that this robot would previously is the fastest humanoid, not humanoid, but quadriped. And it's incredible because the research that they did from this, they took all of this research on how they managed to make this, you know, robot so fast, all the actuators, all the locomotion, and then they decided to take that research, okay, when this robot decided to exceed 10 m/s, and they realized that this robot was insanely quick. With this research, they then decided, okay, we've discovered how to make these quadripeds super incredibly fast. What if we could take that same research of this entirely super fast quadriped and actually put this robot from Black Panther 2, what we've learned into an actual humanoid robot, which is pretty crazy. Okay, this was the critical step. All of the engineering research and designed. They didn't, you know, design a humanoid from scratch. They actually reused the actuators and the humanoid legs used descendants and the same architecture. So when you look at this quadriped going super quickly and trust me guys this thing is insanely quick which is scary and of course you can see their research based on the nature that is why this company was able to get a humanoid robot that has broken the world record for the actual sprinting speed and that's why it's something that is truly remarkable because when you think about okay the company was founded in 2024 they made that quadriped broke the record then they made a humanoid and then with that humanoid they then went and broke the record. So, this company is on an incredible trajectory in such a short space of time. It's barely been 2 years and they're already shattering records because I think when companies have one singular focus, it is very easy for them to go out and achieve that

goal. Now, like I said, this company, okay, there's just some really, really interesting stuff. You may have actually seen this robot in the Mr. Beast video, and I actually didn't realize just how popular this company is because they did a Mr. beast race with Noah Liles and he's basically an American sprinter and it was pretty crazy because they actually had the other unitries in this race as well and the unit tries and the other robots didn't even come close to what the quadriped was able to do. In fact, this robot actually almost pulled off a last second comeback. It was rapidly closing the gap at 35 km an hour. Now, I do have to say that no allows did start out the gate better, but the quadriped, if it didn't start out as slow and was able to get up to that speed pretty quickly, it could have easily beaten a human at that race. And that was the point here. You can see that this thing was insanely fast. Now, of course, if you want to see the humanoid racing an actual human, what I believe the CEO has done, and honestly, props to the CEO because of course this robot is called Bolt. And props the CEO for this. He actually decided to race this humanoid side by side. So you can see right here there is of course the side by side from the CEO versus the actual robot. And you can see just how quickly this robot is moving compared to the actual CEO of the company. So for me, this just goes to show the length that they're willing to prove how quick these robots are going. And you can see as the speed of the treadmill increases that the CEO is completely gone. But this robot is continuing to run at such an incredible rate. And this shows us just how crazy it is for a robot to be able to do this in such a short space of time. Previously we were struggling to get humanoid robots to walk. But now we are getting humanoid robots that are running at 20 plus miles an hour. Now, if that robot bolt does actually fall over, I think the damage will be tremendously catastrophic. I think that's the only reason they're deciding to keep this in the track. That is probably one of the main reasons that it is probably really hard to test these robots because it's not like you're getting it to do some kind of basic activity. You're getting this robot to run at speeds of up to 20 mph. And it's not like a humanoid robot can simply just deploy airbags. It needs to be able to stop and conserve that energy without completely destroying it. So, of course, that is why you have to have this robot in this sort of, you know, suspended hanger thing, and it does make sense. Now, of course, eventually we will see the robot likely run without that once they manage to figure out the tech, but I still think that this is a remarkable feat. And if you've been paying attention to the humanoid robotics in terms of how fast these things have actually gotten, you'll know that the Unitary H1 was previously the 1500 meter champion. Okay? They actually held a robotics Olympics, okay? And the Unitary H1 actually ran at about 3. 3 meters/s in China. And this one had tons and tons of media coverage. And this moment mattered because this is a robot that was out there running on the real racetrack that Olympians run on. Okay? And it just goes to show how quickly we can go from humanoids, you know, walking, struggling around, okay, like an old person to them actually running on a racetrack like real humans, which is remarkable. Okay, now it's pretty incredible. Like I said, okay, the development in terms of how fast has this company managed to grow. If you look at the unitary H1 and the overall growth, okay, in terms of speed, it's pretty incredible. When we take a look at how quickly the things are, it's like not an S-curve, okay, this is just complete exponential growth in terms of the speed. You can literally see, and I probably will have to make this a bit bigger, but you can see that in 2024 all the way up until 2026, there was just, you know, pretty steady improvement. And then all of a sudden, you get the MirrorMe robot that just goes straight to 10 m/s. And you can see on the chart there, I've made it so that they've plotted the world's fastest human, which is, you know, Usain Bolt. And you can see that projected overtake is April 2026. Now, I'm not sure if that is going to happen. Of course, it's not that accurate because there aren't many data points. So, it's quite likely that it probably will be later, but I still think this graph is a representative to show you guys the, you know, exponential improvement that we're getting in robotics. This graph just perfectly illustrates what the entire AI industry is trying to show you all when it comes to the rapid pace of development that does exist. So, do I think, you know, in a few years these robots are going to be chasing me down the street for an unpaid parking fine? Honestly, maybe. I hope they aren't. But it does show the fact that these humanoid robots are advancing a lot quicker than we had thought. So, let me know your thoughts on this. This video has been super entertaining. If you enjoyed this video, I'll see you in the next