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The phrase \u2018the future is now\u2019 often gets tossed around willy-nilly but in this situation, it seems quite apt. A Chinese robotics company, Galbot, recently demonstrated how their humanoid robot can play tennis.<\/p>\n
Why Tennis? It is believed to be one of the most difficult tests of human agility and represents a significant milestone for a humanoid robot<\/a> to be able to keep up with the lateral movements required and constant adjustments needed on the court.<\/p>\n Chinese Robot Plays Tennis Like A Human<\/p>\n Of course, the implication here is that if a Chinese robot is capable of playing tennis then it is also capable of doing a LOT more\u2026 Like navigating difficult terrain, dodging oncoming attacks, etc.<\/p>\n Robotics firm Galbot demonstrated the tennis-playing robot while announcing LATENT (Learning Athletic Humanoid Tennis Skills from Imperfect Human Motion Data). They are calling this \u201cthe world\u2019s first real-time whole-body planning and control algorithm for athletic humanoid tennis.\u201d<\/p>\n Galbot added this is \u201cthe first time a humanoid robot can sustain high-dynamic, long-horizon tennis rallies with millisecond-level reactions, precise ball striking, and natural whole-body motion.\u201d Are we finally living in the future? Check out this footage and you be the judge.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Now, the real question I have is how many of you out there are capable of beating this robot in tennis? I probably pick up a racket once every 5 years and I still fancy my chances against a robot simply by being able to place the ball in areas the robot cannot swiftly reach.<\/p>\n Is there an easy, hard, and expert mode? Can they crank up the intensity on the robot and have it sprinting around the court like a semi-pro? What kind of index are we talking here for the robot?<\/p>\n Lastly, will these tennis robots eventually make for suitable practicing partners for human beings? Does this mark the beginning of the end for man-on-man scrimmaging in practice??<\/p>\n Meanwhile, robots in Germany<\/a> are already replacing human beings at BMW. They are replacing human delivery drivers in Los Angeles and elsewhere here in the US, with mixed results<\/a>.<\/p>\n Are we oxygen breathing human beings becoming obsolete by the minute??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"iStockphoto The phrase \u2018the future is now\u2019 often gets tossed around willy-nilly but in this situation, it seems…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,512,300,17895,85,747],"class_list":["post-546481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-china","tag-robotics","tag-robots","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}