Exercício: Verbo Surpass

Encontrei em uma prova a seguinte questão:

"Now, with the emergence of collaborative robots, we seem to be on the cusp of a new age of robotic deployment that could well surpass the heady days of robot deployment in the 1980s.".

The verb "surpass" (line above) means:

(a) to be shorter than.
(b) to underachieve.
(c) to go beyond.
(d) to be superior.

Estou em dúvida nas opções C e D, qual seria a mais adequada neste caso?

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