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Lightning (Shandian / Flash)
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Honor · research humanoid

Lightning

Shandian / Flash

A running-focused humanoid from the smartphone maker, with legs about 90-95 cm long and phone-derived liquid cooling. Honor has not published full specs.

Price
—Not published
Height
169 cmTaller than 58%
Weight
—Not published
Payload
—Not published
Speed
—Not published
Battery
—Not published
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Why it matters

Won the 2026 Beijing humanoid half marathon autonomously in 50:26, faster than the human world record (57:20).

Real-world use

No customers or deployments reported yet.

Timeline

First shown
2026-04-19
Released
Not yet
Beijing E-Town Humanoid Robot Half Marathon 2026

Maker

HonorCompany · founded 2013 · Shenzhen, China

Private; majority owned by Shenzhen Zhixin New Information Technology since Nov 2020.

How it stacks up

Against other humanoids that publish the figure. Pick a measure.

  1. FeatherFeather Robotics · 2026180 cm
  2. MagicBot D1MagicLab · 2026180 cm
  3. Galbot S1Galbot (Galaxy General Robot) · 2026179 cm
  4. Lightning (Shandian / Flash)Honor · 2026169 cm
  5. Lumen H1Guanggu Dongzhi (Hubei Guanggu Dongzhi Embodied Intelligence) · 2026169 cm
  6. Unitree Dual-Arm Humanoid (R1-A5 / R1-A7 / R1-A5-D / R1-A7-D)Unitree Robotics · 2026160 cm
  7. D1ZEALS (Omakase Robotics division) · 2026159 cm
  8. Booster T2Booster Robotics · 2026140 cm

Lightning (Shandian / Flash) is taller than 58% of the 305 other humanoids that publish a height. Bars show the 7 closest in date.

Height 169 cm 34 cm213 cm #130 of 306 · taller than 58%

Not published by the maker: weight, speed, payload, joints, battery, price.

What it has been shown doing

2 of 14 skills we track, each from a public video or report. Demos can be staged or remote-controlled; we say so when the source does.

  • RunDemoAutonomousran the Beijing humanoid half-marathon in 50:26, faster than the human record; fell once and was set upright by handlers · Apr 2026 · scientificamerican.com
  • Runs on its ownDemoAutonomouswinning run was in the autonomous-navigation group (course premapped; some reports describe it as semi-autonomous) · Apr 2026 · globaltimes.cn

Not shown yet:SortAssembleFoldKitchenToolsFineStairsTerrainGet upJumpCarryOn site

Public attention

How much public attention Lightning (Shandian / Flash) gets, from open data.

  • No Wikipedia article of its own yet
  • 2 news stories from reputable press listed on this page

Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-14; same method for every robot. How it is measured

What’s inside

The parts the company has talked about publicly.

Hands
unknown
Movement
Walks on legs
Actuators & motors
Four lower-limb drive motors, each with its own liquid-cooling circuit (Spectrum).
Other details
Leg length about 95 cm, modelled on elite runners; in-house liquid cooling with a pump moving over 4 litres per minute. Honor has not published full specs.

Named suppliers:Orbbec

From the maker

Lightning (Shandian / Flash) is the only humanoid from Honor in the atlas.

Watch Lightning (Shandian / Flash)

Video: Reuters on YouTube. Plays from youtube-nocookie.com when you press play.

Made, sold and where

Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.

Price
Not published
How to get one
Not for saleMarathon research robot; not for sale.
Built
Competition prototype; not for sale.

News

The latest 2, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.

  1. Lightning runs 9.47 s in 100 m heat

    Second behind Tiangong Ultra at the World Humanoid Robot Games.

    Khaleej Times
  2. Honor's Lightning wins Beijing half marathon in 50:26

    Autonomous robot beat the human record; Honor says its cooling tech may go into industry.

    PBS NewsHour

Side by side with its peers

Picked by the same rules for every humanoid: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. Few robots match closely, so these are the nearest matches. How we choose

Full comparison
MeasureLightning (Shandian / Flash)Lightning (Shandian / Flash)HonorNo public photo yetWe only show photos we're allowed to useXiao An (小安)Changan Automobile (Changan Tianshu Intelligent Robot)Same job: entertainment · Both walk · Both in development · Similar sizeJAKA Pi (JAKA π)JAKA Pi (JAKA π)JAKA Robotics (节卡机器人)Same job: entertainment · Both walk · Both in development
First shown2026-04-192025-11-212026-06
StatusPrototypePrototypePrototype
Height169 cm169 cm122 cm
Weight——42 kg
Joints—4027
Speed———
Payload——3 kg
Battery—2 h—
Price———

Sources

Figures come from press coverage. Every link below backs something on this page.

PBS NewsHour / AP Humanoid robot wins Beijing half-marathon, defeating the human world record Beijing Municipal Government Who is Winner? Champion Crowned for Humanoid Robot Half Marathon IEEE Spectrum China humanoid robot marathon Khaleej Times Chinese robot Tiangong Ultra beats Usain Bolt's 100m world record at Beijing games Logo: HONOR, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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