Galbot robots showcase autonomous tennis skills with 100-plus rallies
Galbot’s human-like robots kept up over 100 tennis rallies in a row with no human in control.
The run came as the Second World Humanoid Robot Games (WHRG) opened in Beijing, in what the company depicted as the first live autonomous humanoid tennis match.
Five hours of amateur footage taught the G1 to swing
The demonstration comes with a purposefully loaded label from Beijing Galaxy General Robot Co. It’s calling the run tennis’s “AstraTennis moment,” a reference to AlphaGo’s 2016 win over Go champion Lee Sedol.
Where AlphaGo mastered a game played on a board, this was a physical contest played on a real court, in real time. Galbot said the rally streak set a record for humanoid robot tennis, and the demonstration was done on a live broadcast.
The game was played at the opening ceremony of the WHRG. This second edition hosted 2,056 machines from 666 teams in 16 countries.
Each robot had to take in the incoming shots and determine whether to play a forehand, backhand, serve, return, or a scrambling recovery shot.
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