Unitree released a new humanoid, “Superman”, on 17 August, with a 2-metre standing vertical jump and a top speed of 12.66 metres per second on 0.85-metre legs, past the standing-high-jump and running-speed records for any human. The company said the whole machine took just over three months to develop and has room to improve in the coming months.
The result extends a fast run of records. In April, Unitree’s H1 reached 10 metres per second, near the Bolt limit, and Superman now clears it. Unitree also said its cumulative biped humanoid production has passed about 18,000 units, counting only bionic bipeds and excluding wheeled or other humanoid forms.
For a firm already exporting humanoids at volume, the jump is as much a demo of iteration speed as of athletics: a record-breaking body built in a single quarter signals how fast the company can turn a spec into a shipped machine.
Editor’s note: This is an adapted translation of the original Sohu report. It has been trimmed and restructured for readability for an international business audience.