Chinese-made robotic dog rivals human sprinters

A Chinese robotic dog reached a speed of 10.3 meters per second on a TV show on Sunday — on par with top human sprinters — marking a new robotics milestone.

During the televised public demonstration, the robot, named Black Panther, broke the machine dog world dash record set by WildCat, which was manufactured by Boston Dynamics, a tech company in the United States.

A video broadcast by China's state television broadcaster CCTV shows the 38-kilogram, 0.63-meter-tall robotic dog reaching an impressive speed on the treadmill exceeding 10 meters per second after running for 10 seconds.