Honor's humanoid robot just smoked the human half-marathon record
Honor's autonomous humanoid robot "Lightning" just won a Beijing half-marathon with a 50:26 finish, beating 12,000 human runners and topping the human world record of 57:20. Developed in a single year, the bot borrows smartphone liquid cooling and 90-95 cm legs modeled after elite sprinters. Autonomous Lightning models swept the podium, showing how fast bipedal robotics is catching up to human athletics.