Tools & manufacturing · April 2026

Robot beats human half-marathon record

A humanoid runs 21 km faster than any person has.

Honor's Lightning robot ran the Beijing E-Town half-marathon autonomously in 50:26, under the human record of about 57 minutes. The fastest robot a year earlier had taken 2 hours 40 minutes.

See it in the living tree Wikipedia Source

Arcs above join it to what it stood on, arcs below to what it led to. The bar places this stretch on the tree's whole timeline.

What it built on 1

World Humanoid Robot Games 2025

Related measurements

The dashed line marks when it first worked.

Training compute of notable AI models Source: Epoch AI, Notable AI Models (CC BY 4.0)