Watch: Moment humanoid robot beats Usain Bolt's 100m record

Notably, a robot has outperformed humans by running faster than Usain Bolt's 100m sprint world record at the World Humanoid Robot Games in China.

Key points

• Eight-time Olympic gold medallist Bolt set the world record for humans in 2009, running 100m in 9.58 seconds.
• The humanoid robot, developed by the Beijing Innovation Centre of Humanoid Robotics, ran the distance in 9.39 seconds at the event.
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• It began on Saturday, include boxing and football, but additionally household tasks such as folding laundry.

Meanwhile, the humanoid robot, developed by the Beijing Innovation Centre of Humanoid Robotics, ran the distance in 9.39 seconds at the event.

In practice, the robot beat two others including one created by Chinese smartphone maker Honor – which the manufacturer states ran the distance in 9.32 seconds in a test run.

Other events at the robot games. It began on Saturday, include boxing and football, but additionally household tasks such as folding laundry. The BBC's China correspondent Laura Bicker reports from Beijing. You are now after China.

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Taken together, the developments around watch: Moment humanoid robot beats Usain Bolt' s 100m record point to a situation that is still moving, and the coming days should bring more clarity.