229. Teaching Robots to Play Badminton

from The Next Byte · host Daniel Scott Mitchell, Farbod Moghaddam

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In this episode, we cover how researchers trained a quadruped robot to play badminton, teaching it to track the shuttlecock, move into position, and swing a racket in real time, showing how AI can bring robots closer to human-like coordination.

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