Four-legged robot plays badminton with humans

Researchers at ETH Zurich’s Robotic Systems Lab have created a four-legged robot, named ANYmal-D, capable of playing badminton with humans.

The robot, described in Science Robotics, uses a stereo camera, a dynamic arm, and a reinforcement-learning-based controller to track and hit a shuttlecock.

The team also implemented a “perception noise model” to help the robot adapt to real-world play, TechXplore has reported.

Testing showed that ANYmal-D could move around the court and rally with human players for up to 10 consecutive shots.

read more: https://techxplore.com/news/2025-05-legged-robot-plays-badminton-humans.html

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