Your humanoid tennis player is here!
A Galbot presenter describes a humanoid robot tennis system that plans and controls its movements in response to fast-changing play.
In this talk
- 0:01
Why tennis challenges humanoids
Fast rallies require a robot to handle uncertain ball landing locations and shifting flight paths. Those demands make tennis a difficult athletic task for humanoids.
- 0:15
Real-time planning and control
Galbot presents an algorithm for coordinating a humanoid’s full-body movement during tennis. It processes changing inputs and selects actions within milliseconds, moving beyond copying motions toward choosing responses.
- 0:38
Sustaining rallies
The system is designed to keep rallies going continuously. This extends the robot’s task from answering single shots to managing an ongoing exchange.
- 1:08
Performance across opponents
The learned policy is described as stable in real gameplay against people with varied ages and ways of playing.
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