Overtaq Overtaq

The overtake timeline

Nine crossings, ordered by the date the machine passed the human benchmark. Seven Overtaq counts as confirmed; two are qualified — the distance and the task are right, the conditions are not — and are counted separately. A tenth discipline — the standing high jump — is published to refuse the comparison rather than to record a crossing.

  • 1997

    Chess

    11 MAY 1997 · DEEP BLUE · IBM

    Passed Garry Kasparov, reigning world champion. Won a six-game classical match 3½–2½ in New York, a year after losing to the same opponent.

    CONFIRMED
  • 2014

    Rubik’s Cube

    15 MARCH 2014 · CUBESTORMER 3 · ARM

    Passed The standing human world record. Solved a 3×3×3 cube in 3.253s, passing the fastest human time of the day. Machines have held the mark ever since.

    CONFIRMED
  • 2016

    Go

    15 MARCH 2016 · ALPHAGO · DEEPMIND

    Passed Lee Sedol, 9 dan. Won 4–1 over five games with no handicap, roughly a decade earlier than the field expected.

    CONFIRMED
  • 2017

    Poker

    30 JANUARY 2017 · LIBRATUS · CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY

    Passed Four elite heads-up specialists. Won by 147 big blinds per 100 hands over 120,000 hands, with duplicate dealing to remove card luck.

    CONFIRMED
  • 2019

    StarCraft II

    30 OCTOBER 2019 · ALPHASTAR · DEEPMIND

    Passed The ranked ladder population. Reached Grandmaster above 99.8% of ranked players under camera-view and action-rate constraints.

    CONFIRMED
  • 2021

    Sim racing

    21 OCTOBER 2021 · GT SOPHY · SONY AI

    Passed Four top-ranked Gran Turismo drivers. Won a head-to-head competition after losing the first exhibition three months earlier.

    CONFIRMED
  • 2022

    Drone racing

    13 JUNE 2022 · SWIFT · UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH

    Passed Three champion FPV pilots. Won 15 of 25 races and set the fastest lap, flying on onboard sensing alone. The first physical sport to fall.

    CONFIRMED
  • 2026

    Half marathon

    19 APRIL 2026 · LIGHTNING · HONOR ROBOT

    Passed Yomif Kejelcha, 56:51. Covered the distance in 50:26 in a humanoid division that permits battery swaps and handler contact.

    QUALIFIED
  • 2026

    100 metres

    22 AUGUST 2026 · TIANGONG ULTRA · X-HUMANOID

    Passed Usain Bolt, 9.58. 9.39 s in a preliminary heat at the World Humanoid Robot Games, with Honor’s Lightning at 9.47 s in the same heat. No published timing chain.

    QUALIFIED

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