Robot STAR1 He can reach speeds of up to 8 miles per hour with a pair of running shoes. Scientists have demonstrated a new humanoid robot that can reach speeds of just over 8 miles per hour (mph), or exactly 3.6 meters per second (m/s). This makes it the fastest machine of its type ever produced, although these speeds were only achieved with the help of extra shoes.

STAR1 Created by the Chinese company Robot Era, it is a bipedal robot that is 5 feet 7 inches (171 centimeters) tall and weighs 143 pounds (65 kilograms).

In a promotional video, the team pitted two STAR1 robots against each other in the Gobi Desert in northwestern China and gave one model a pair of sneakers to see if it would help it run faster. Thanks to high torque motors and algorithms
The artificial intelligence (AI) STAR1 navigated different types of terrain, including meadows and gravel, while wearing shoes, running on paved roads and dirt, and maintained its top speed for 34 minutes.

The 8 mph top speed means it surpasses Unitree’s H1 robot, which set the previous speed record for a bipedal robot at 7.4 mph (3.3 m/s) in March 2024. Although he used STAR1 shoes, technically the H1 was not a jog or a jog because his feet did not leave the ground at the same time during transport.

According to the Robot Era website, STAR1 is powered by artificial intelligence hardware with 275 trillion operations per second (TOPS) computing power. This is much higher than the typical AI processing power found in most high-end laptops, which ranges between 45 and 55 TOPS. The robot also has 12 degrees of freedom, which refers to the number of joints and the range of movements it can make.

STAR1 is just one of many humanoid robots that companies around the world have demonstrated in recent months. These include the Tesla Optimus Gen-2 robot, the artificially intelligent Figure 01 robot, and Boston Dynamics’ new Atlas.
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