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Only a human can beat the human world record, otherwise we'd be giving gold medals to ostriches.

Damn, look at the lil dude go

slow car

I wanted to give this the benefit of the doubt and say well this could be cool for delivering things up mountainous roads...but no he's running on a SMOOTH surface.

🤣🤣

Great my car could easily beat it

Militaries will be using these things to kill people by next year. Terrifying.

No one cares. Scrap that piece of shit.

Who fucking cares? Of course a fucking machine came out because it's a machine. Also a Chinese phone maker made it? What a waste of time, effort, money and resources considering they have no Honor.

Oh fuck off

How much did they pay CNN for this advertisement?

My sentiment exactly.

*Because its not human*. Are you actually stupid? I'd possibly care one iota if it were a Nexus 6 replicate, but otherwise its about as interesting as reporting that a train could go faster.

Whocare

a Chinese android and its support crew in a golf cart just travelled the same distance as a real half marathon, but on a segregated and barriered course in a fraction less time than the best human has completed a real half marathon in much more challenging conditions.

Congratulations to the engineers on a biped vehicle, that’s cool I guess. Similar to AI « art », there’s no substance to compare to human efforts: on that level it’s devoid, meaningless, disqualified.

Machines are faster than humans, news at 11.

This is somehow sad and underwhelming at the same time. A machine moved a distance? Ok cool. What ever. Just drive next time.

no, this is like getting mad at someone who makes cameras, because you know that eventually they're going to beat you to death with one.

but it looks so funny

This is exceptionally unimpressive

Oh man, imagine if it had wheels. I wonder when someone will invent those?

If a human didn't do something, it didn't happen.

who care

And it didn't even break a sweat.

👆

“Stunning”? What the fuck are you yapping about, @cnn.com ?

And the “Gender” is 🤔 geez the future is now, and it really is scary.

Super useful.

Machines being faster than humans is not news. We have old folk tales about it.

So a machine can move faster than a human being. Who would guess?

bsky.app/profile/cpax...

Pretty sure you gotta be human in order to "beat" any human world record.

It looks like it has to take a dump

Wake me when the robot can run a 1/2 marathon while drunk or hungover.

Thanks. I cycle faster than I run.

Two words: robot soldiers

Wait a minute: we have machines that can operate faster than human beings in 2026?! Shocking… 🙄

wow my remove controlled toy car when I was 6 was faster than a human, too

But would it be as useful as when KitchenAid developed a mixer attachment that rows double scull 2000 yards a full second faster than Olympic record, overcoming dificulties experienced previously using 1999 yard extension cord by developing 2002 yard lenght cord.

Is Riley Gaines pissed off about this?

someone should make a machine that does something useful

On an open flat track. Now do the same for a cross-country run through a forest

BREAKING: a different thing performed differently. things are different. back to you

It couldn't run a full marathon?

A 47-toed foot robot beat the human record for most toes by at least 33.

I can beat that on a toy scooter.

Only by 6 minutes? Pffft.

I mean, I'm glad machines do repetitive tasks well, but that's kinda their whole purpose so the "pitting them against people" part isn't helpful.

It's probable a Roomba or robot lawnmower with a stronger motor and good battery pack could do this as could a person on a bicycle with no electric power at all, an e-bike, car, bus, train, airplane, rocket, loads of things, actually. Find any device which moves at 15 mph or faster, which are lots.

This is such a non-story. "Machine engineered to be better than humans, actually manages to be a bit better than humans at task humans don't a machine to be better at doing than them."

Why does it run like it needs to take a dump?

Ok but it also looks stupid

I mean, it is a silly headline but also a cool engineering challenge and feat

Why are we comparing speed times between humans and robots? Apples to oranges

It would have gone faster if they gave it wheels

Runs like a fucking meff though.

hypothetically

A machine is faster then us? What a scoop. 🙄

Who gives a fuck dude

So what? I mean - It could have just sat in a taxi 🤷‍♂️

Ha!

cool man

Not really surprised, machines and all that.

And he never even broke a sweat.

It probably helps if you don’t need to breathe.

Can't tell from the video, but was that even technically a 'walk,' with at least one foot always touching the ground?

I have also beat the human world record half marathon pace by more than 30 minutes in my mini van full of groceries.

This is how I look when I really need to piss.

Someone write the new John Henry ballad

Only six minutes? The thing doesn't get tired nor need food/water.

Yeah... it's a machine. If it *didn't* beat the human record it'd be weird. Cars, motorcycles, mopeds... they'd all be able to beat the human record. So what? Your "stunning" adjective is unwarranted.

What a weird headline? The human record stands — it wasn’t “beat.” Something like a car moved fast. So what? That’s banal.

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Then it doesn't count so who cares? 🤷‍♂️

Breaking News: Jet flies faster than eagle.

Wait until you see how fast my car can do it.

Wow, I can’t wait until somebody invents high speed rail

Yeah, and it looked like a dumbass doing it, so what's your point

What's next? A blender that can cut faster than a human? Stop humanizing bots.

So what? A cheetah can also run faster than both a human and that robot! Also that robot cannot even walk on a countryside not having a smooth cement! STOP AI BEFORE THEY STOP THE HUMANITY!

It looks like it shit its pants lmao

My skillet works better at frying than my hand

when you open up a nerd accomplishment thread and every reply is "so? you think you're cool? you're not cool at all"

So?

How is it "stunning?" Its a robot designed to run like a human. Stunning if it didn't do it honestly. Can we think like adults in 2026 please?

"A tireless machine outperforms humans!" They've been doing that since the invention of the steam engine. (actually since before but whatever)

What happens if I throw a big stick at its legs?

I’ll just add to what everyone else is saying: this is supposed to be impressive? As if we haven’t been making machines that are faster than humans for two centuries already.

Who fucking cares????

So many people are working tirelessly to build the terminator. You're gonna be up against the wall too! Work on lab grown meat instead!

There is one and only one athletic category in which humans beat every other animal on the planet (including horses) and that is distance running. If this is what it looks like and the robot was self-powered and autonomous, that’s a big engineering achievement. (Though not an athletic achievement)

Hold my beer

But but but, did anyone make sure this wasnt some trans robot competing against the other gender? This could break the rights brain. What little there is of one 😁

I convert matter into energy through a complex bio-chemical process within my corpus suck it robots

Stone age news: This just in humans invent machine that goes faster than a man! Its called... THE SPEAR!

Baby Enthralled by Jangling Keys Given Staff Position at CNN

Trying to get to a toilet as fast as it possibly can

Certainly this technology will never be put to misuse.

Why

I could do that too, no problem.

That robot still looks like it has diarrhea, and it's sprinting for the nearest porta potty. All those humanoid robots look like they have diarrhea.

Nobody gives a shit

I’m not sure why, but the fact that they had it do a HALF marathon makes this extra stupid.

Exactly

NEXT YOU'LL TELL ME A PLANE CAN DO IT FASTER THAN THE ROBOT!

I see a lot of cool techno things on BlueSky from china: robots, trains, solar, etc. Not so much from the U.S., which is mainly about the damage data centers cause and which tech companies are buying other companies for outrageous amounts.

Excellent -- this will save me the trouble of running my own marathons. How are we coming along with the machine that will perform my push-ups for me?