While child-sized humanoid robots like the Unitree R1 have come down in price, not everybody has a spare $6,000 to throw ...

The robot can follow the shuttlecock and hit it precisely in fast-paced games. Researchers at ETH Zurich created an AI-powered robot that plays badminton against humans. ANYmal-D is a four-legged ...

Thandie Newton in Westworld. John P. Johnson/Courtesy of HBO The question of how to play a robot isn’t one I’d initially considered, because I’d planned to cast a real robot.

The robot delivered a well-aimed ball at Obama who trapped it neatly with his foot. For its final demonstration, the robot declared, “Recently I have learned how to jump.” ...

Meet our AI-powered robot that’s ready to play table tennis. 🤖🏓 It’s the first agent to achieve amateur human level performance in this sport. Here’s how it works. 🧵 pic.twitter.com ...

On top of the robot, Ma’s team fitted an arm with several degrees of freedom produced by another ETH Zürich spinoff called Duatic. This is what would hold and swing a badminton racket.

The robot drummer can listen to itself while playing the drums and uses reinforcement learning ( – RL) to improve its playing. The drum robot is not particularly large.