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Humanoid robots learn professional tennis styles and achieve autonomous rallies

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Researchers have developed a new framework called AdaPT to enable humanoid robots to perform professional tennis styles, focusing on adaptive motion planning and tracking. This system learns from broadcast videos and has been tested on Unitree G1 and Dobot Atom robots, demonstrating improved tracking robustness and the ability to serve without motion capture. Separately, a robot named Galbot autonomously completed over 100 consecutive tennis rallies. AI

IMPACT Advances in robotic motion planning and tracking could lead to more sophisticated AI-powered physical agents capable of complex tasks.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains a research paper detailing a new framework for humanoid robots in sports and a Reddit post about a robot's autonomous performance in tennis.

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Humanoid robots learn professional tennis styles and achieve autonomous rallies

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Tao Huang, Ruofei Liu, Xuchen Tang, Xinyin Zhang, Junli Ren, Huayi Wang, Feiyu Jia, Yukai Qi, Kangning Yin, Weishuai Zeng, Lipeng Chen, Xi Li, Ting Wu, Kailin Li, Ruoli Dai, Jingbo Wang, Lei Han, Jiangmiao Pang ·

    Towards Professional Tennis Styles for Humanoid Robots with Adaptive Motion Planning and Tracking

    arXiv:2608.20087v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humanoid robots have recently demonstrated promising capabilities in real-world ball sports. However, achieving professional motion styles while maintaining strong task performance remains challenging. In this work, we propose Ada…

  2. r/singularity TIER_2 English(EN) · /u/Distinct-Question-16 ·

    WHRG'26: Galbot’s humanoid robot just completed +100 consecutive tennis rallies autonomously

    <table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1vwclb9/whrg26_galbots_humanoid_robot_just_completed_100/"> <img alt="WHRG'26: Galbot’s humanoid robot just completed +100 consecutive tennis rallies autonomously" src="https://external-preview.redd.it/OTYwOT…

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