Robot Olympics ends with humanoid's 8.64-second 100m, nearly a second faster than Bolt

BEIJING, Aug 26 : A Chinese humanoid robot on Wednesday ran the 100 metres in 8.64 seconds, almost a second faster than Jamaican Usain Bolt's human world-record time, at the close of a five-day competition featuring robotic athletes, viral stumbles and industrial tests.Tiangong Ultra, developed by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Centre, won the large-size robot 100m final at the second World Humanoid Robot Games.The robot improved rapidly through the event, running 9.39 seconds and 8.86 seconds in qualifying before the final.Bolt's world record of 9.58 seconds was set at the 2009 world championships in Berlin. As in human athletics, the 100m was one of the highlights of the Beijing games, underscoring advances in robot mobility, balance and control systems.The event dubbed the "Robot