Honor's Humanoid Breaks Half-Marathon World Record in Beijing

An autonomous humanoid developed by Honor shattered the human half-marathon world record in Beijing’s E-Town race, finishing 13.1 miles in 50 minutes 26 seconds and beating the previous mark by seven minutes; the event drew over 100 robots from 76 institutions competing alongside 12,000 runners, with some robots crashing or needing support, while a remote-controlled Honor prototype finished even faster at 48:19— underscoring rapid robotics progress and AI, even as machines still face reliability and real-world task limitations.