Galbot Robots complete 100 consecutive rallies against a tennis champion
Galbot says its robot completed more than 100 consecutive autonomous tennis rallies against former world number 15 Zheng Jie at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing. The rally count, the autonomy claim and the robot’s identity all rest on the company’s own account.
A robot spent Saturday rallying with a former Wimbledon semi-finalist. The Beijing company Galbot says its machine sustained more than 100 consecutive exchanges against Zheng Jie at the World Humanoid Robot Games, with no teleoperation and no scripted sequence.
The described performance is not trivial. Chinese state media reported serves above 100 kilometres per hour, and said the robot fell backwards on a high looping ball and got itself upright within seconds.
Tennis is a far better test than the sprint records set at the same event. A rally demands tracking a fast object, planning a whole-body response and adapting to an opponent inside a fraction...
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