Developed by smartphone-maker Honor, the humanoid bot finishes the 21-kilometer race in 50 minutes and 26 seconds — beating the record of roughly 57 minutes held by Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo

Dozens of Chinese-made humanoid robots showed off their fast-improving athleticism as they whizzed past human runners in Beijing

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