Chinese scientists have created the fastest humanoid robot in the world: it can accelerate up to 13 km/h. Photos and video

Chinese scientists have demonstrated a new humanoid robot, STAR1, which can move at a maximum speed of 13 kilometers per hour or 3.6 meters per second. Although these figures make it the fastest machine of its kind in the world, it has a secret.

The robot, created by the Chinese company Robot Era, achieves its record speed thanks to an additional shoe. After all, it runs slower without sneakers, LiveScience writes.

In the promotional video, the team placed two STAR1 robots in the Gobi Desert in northwestern China and gave one of them a pair of sneakers to see if it would help it run faster.

Thanks to its high-torque motors and artificial intelligence algorithms, the STAR1 wearing the shoes could move across different types of terrain – grasslands and gravel, asphalt road, and sand. At the same time, the robot maintained a maximum speed of 13 kilometers per hour for 34 minutes. The humanoid without shoes ran much slower.

According to the developers, STAR1 in sneakers has surpassed Unitree's H1 bipedal robot, which set a previous speed record of 11.9 km/h (3.3 m/s) in March 2024.

According to the Robot Era website, STAR1 is powered by artificial intelligence hardware that boasts 275 trillion operations per second (TOPS) of processing power. This is much higher than the typical AI processing power found in the best laptops, which range from 45 to 55 TOPS. The robot also has 12 degrees of freedom, meaning that it has the number of joints and range of motion it can make.

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