Chinese humanoid robot breaks Usain Bolt's 100m dash record at 9.39 seconds

Jamaican Usain Bolt's 100-meter dash record of 9.58 set in 2009 was edged by a Beijing-based X-Humanoid robot named Lightning Bolt, which ran 100 meters at 9:39 seconds before smashing into a blue wall.

After smashing into the wall, the robots were placed on a stretcher, unlike Bolt, who was able to jog a lap to celebrate human achievement in 2009.

The World Humanoid Robot Games, in its second year, features more than 2,000 robots in 51 events and 1,000 competitions like running, table tennis and soccer. The five-day event highlights China's rapid progress in robotics amid a heated tech race with the U.S.

Humanoid robots are "evolving rapidly," said Li Yanfeng, an education worker and a Beijing resident.

"These sports are perfectly normal for humans, but now robots can do them. I find it amazing," said Yang Shangzheng, another spectator.

Liu Tao, who was watching the games with his son, said he was hoping to see "the best robots China currently has to offer."

This year's robot games - which the organizer said has 16 countries participating, among them Germany, Japan and the U.S. - also include other events such as weightlifting and tug of war.

President Donald Trump's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) banned imports of new foreign-made humanoid robots, because they "pose unacceptable risks to the national security of the United States or the safety and security of United States persons."

"I welcome these Executive Branch national security determinations, and I am pleased that the FCC has now added foreign produced advanced robotics and power inverters to the FCC's Covered List," FCC Chair Brendan Carr wrote in a statement last month. "Following President Trump's leadership, the FCC will continue to do our part to secure America's critical supply chains and, with today's action, the FCC is acting in lock step with our national security agencies to do just that."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.