Humanoid robot runs a half-marathon race
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Honor's "Lightning" android won the 2026 robot half marathon, smashing the human world record for the same distance. The robot is said to use the same cooling tech as Honor's smartphones. Honor might be best known for its smartphones,
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More than 100 humanoid robot teams and 12,000 human runners took part in the world's second half-marathon for androids in Beijing, with multiple robots finishing the 21-kilometer race in less than one hour.
The robot, named Lightning, ran almost 7 minutes faster than the human record, and beat the previous robot champ by nearly 2 hours.