China’s fastest humanoid robot in the world

Bolt is a jointly developed product between Hangzhou Global Science and Technology Innovation Center (HIC) of Zhejiang University, MirrorMe Technology company and Hangzhou Kaierda Welding Robot company. With a height of 175 cm and weight of 75 kg, Bolt is designed to simulate the proportions of the human body.

HIC introduced Bolt earlier this week and said it is the fastest life-sized humanoid robot in the world, marking an important milestone in high-speed movement and control. In the demonstration video, the robot competes with Wang Hongtao, founder of MirrorMe Technology, on a treadmill. When Wang was exhausted, the robot still maintained a steady run with a speed reaching 10 m/s or 36 km/h.

Bolt is named after track legend Usain Bolt, who holds the world record for running 100 m with a time of 9.58 seconds. At its current speed, in theory, the robot can complete a distance of 100 m in 10 seconds, approaching top Olympic athletes. Their goal is not to break records, Wang noted, but to develop a technology platform that approaches or exceeds the biological limits of human movement.

Theo CCTVas of 2025, China has more than 140 domestic humanoid robot manufacturers, and more than 330 humanoid robot models have been launched on the market. Many analysts see 2025 as the start of large-scale humanoid robot production, with commercial deployment growing rapidly.

In December 2025, Optimus, a humanoid robot from electric car manufacturer Tesla, caused a stir when running like a human at high speed, estimated at 13.7 km/h or 3.8 m per second (3.8 m/s). According to Humanoids Dailythis speed is equivalent to the fastest humanoid robots in the world, surpassing STAR1 of RobotEra company (China) with a speed of 3.6 m/s and H1 of Unitree (China) with 3.3 m/s. However, compared to Bolt’s new record, these robots are still quite slow.