Two humanoid robots broke Usain Bolt’s record for the 100-meter dash last Saturday. One ( shown here) ran the course in 9.47 seconds, and the other managed to do so in just 9.39 seconds.

More than 600 teams brought 2,000 robots to Beijing for the second edition of this annual competition, where humanoid robots compete in a wide variety of events, including athletics and household tasks.

The World Humanoid Robot Games are currently going on in Beijing. The event, which seems like the world’s largest Battlebots taping, features events like boxing, weightlifting, track races, and real-world scenario simulations like firefighting and hospitality tasks which have the robot competitors demonstrate their prowess at the applications they were ostensibly designed for—y’know,

More, more, more: humanoid robot shipments are growing fast, according to three different sources. But there's some nuance as to where all those humanoids are going