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A robot has set a Guinness World Record for the fastest 100 meters by a bipedal robot. The robot, named Cassie, was invented at the Oregon State University College of Engineering and produced by OSU spinout company Agility Robotics. Cassie clocked the historic time of 24.73 seconds at OSU’s Whyte Track and Field Center starting from a standing position and returning to that position after the sprint, with no falls. The 100-meter record builds on earlier achievements by the robot including traversing 5 kilometers in 2021 in just over 53 minutes. Cassie, the first bipedal robot to use machine learning to control a running gait on outdoor terrain completed the 5K on Oregon State’s campus untethered and on a single battery charge. The robot has knees that bend like an ostrich’s and operates with no cameras or external sensors, essentially as if blind. Hurst, chief technology officer at Agility Robotics and a robotics professor at Oregon State, called the Guinness-recognized accomplishment “a big watershed moment.” “This may be the first bipedal robot to learn to run, but it won’t be the last,” he said. “I believe control approaches like this are going to be a huge part of the future of robotics.”