Flash, a humanoid robot made by Chinese smartphone company Honor, just smashed the human world record for the half-marathon. I dive into why this smartphone company seems to be pivoting to humanoid robots and whether others may soon follow.
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Why This Phone Company Is Now a (Record-Breaking) Robot Company
0:00 A New World Record
0:10 The Beijing Half-Marathon Robot Race
1:05 Flash: The Autonomous Champion
1:42 Why Smartphone Makers Are Pivoting to Robots
2:27 The Role of AI and Computer Vision
2:39 Car Companies and the History of Automation
3:19 Humanoids in the Consumer Market
3:45 China’s State Policy and Future Innovation
4:22 How Smartphone Tech Improves Robotics
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@QueenFinSov
April 26, 2026 at 8:03 am
👍🏿👍🏿
@masterd5613
April 26, 2026 at 8:13 am
I guess.
@Shaggy-8392
April 26, 2026 at 8:26 am
Idiots are creating and walking into a nightmare of their own creation. They think they will use it to fight their foreign wars and colonialist enterprises but don’t seem to understand it will affect them as well.
@66cybertube
April 26, 2026 at 8:46 am
“They”? How about everyone? 😂😂😂
@sirsquirrel6176
April 26, 2026 at 8:50 am
Guinness needs to only include humans in their world records
@Roady93
April 26, 2026 at 4:14 pm
Robot racism 😂
@LunarCore1
April 26, 2026 at 8:52 am
They gonna kill us all
@JedEckert
April 26, 2026 at 10:11 am
100%
@glen8584
April 26, 2026 at 8:52 am
How far away are we from a drone army? Dancing robots ya keep it on the fun side and hide what’s really going on.
@JedEckert
April 26, 2026 at 10:10 am
Check out some of the automated weapons systems that are being used by the Ukranian military.
@Persuadu
April 26, 2026 at 2:28 pm
@Stefanie-Jd made the EXACT same comment, so which one of you is the bot? LOL
@kup4ever
April 26, 2026 at 9:08 am
Am I the only one bothered by how excited he is? A robot is faster than a human…ok. The revenge of the tech nerds is going to destroy us all lol
@ddw6523
April 26, 2026 at 9:11 am
Only a few years now good bye useless humans 😂
@imbroken73
April 26, 2026 at 9:13 am
Gunpowder we never learn.
@southernplantsmen
April 26, 2026 at 9:22 am
No, no robots, they will get run over by our trucks. I’m not going to compete with a machine. Ill destroy it first.
@JJs_playground
April 26, 2026 at 9:42 am
I want that robot phone.
@Chrish1981
April 26, 2026 at 10:34 am
The race to see which company will win government contracts for drone ground troops 😁😂
@ThisGuyRides
April 26, 2026 at 11:07 am
It’s a fancy remote controlled toy.
@cysouthy3948
April 26, 2026 at 11:21 am
So a car with legs was faster than a human… 1:09
@ballewho
April 26, 2026 at 12:02 pm
This robot did not finish the marathon without being controlled by a human. There is sufficient evidence that the robot by Honor fell down before the finish line and needed a team of people to get it back up and rebooted to finish the marathon. Also there is video footage of a person following the robot with a RC controller guiding it to the finish line.
@Stefanie-Jd
April 26, 2026 at 12:26 pm
How far away are we from a drone army? Dancing robots ya keep it on the fun side and hide what’s really going on. ……
@Persuadu
April 26, 2026 at 2:28 pm
@glen8584 made the EXACT same comment, so which one of you is the bot? LOL
@dearbulls
April 26, 2026 at 12:47 pm
Because Huawei is Chinese military tech company
@pumpthewater419
April 26, 2026 at 5:15 pm
IRobot pro air ultra the worlds first Apple robot coming in 2035
@chm2
April 26, 2026 at 7:58 pm
CCP gunna make Honor make a million of these and send them to Taiwan…
@fastrabbit2962
April 26, 2026 at 11:53 pm
“separated for safety” for Who’s? The robot or the human?
@CNET
April 27, 2026 at 7:34 am
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@RomanEmpire-lc4tb
April 27, 2026 at 8:18 am
Machine set a record.. it’s like saying my Toyota Prius can beat anyone in a marathon 😅
@Nunyabiznas88
April 27, 2026 at 11:04 am
HEADLINE: A machine with infinite stamina is faster than a human…..DUH! 😂