On Sunday, at the Beijing Yizhuang Humanoid Robot Half Marathon, Honor’s “Flash” robot won the championship with a time of 50 minutes and 26 seconds,

The Lightning humanoid developed by Chinese firm Honor competed against more than 100 other robots and thousands of much slower humans.

BEIJING: A humanoid robot that won a half-marathon race for robots in Beijing on Sunday ran faster than the human world record in a show of China’s technological leaps. The winner…