These robots learned tennis and boxing after observing people

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Mack DeGeurin is a tech reporter who’s spent years investigating where technology and politics collide. His work has previously appeared in Gizmodo, Insider, New York Magazine, and Vice.

ArticleBody:If Boston Dynamics-style large, bipedal robots ever do end up replacing humans in workspaces, they may do so after being trained by their flesh-and-bone predecessors. In a new paper, researchers from Stanford explain how they taught a 5 '9 humanoid-looking robot equipped with a single RGB camera to play piano, tennis, and even learn to box simply by imitating or “shadowing” human movements.

Another activity, which involved the robot using a keyboard to type the coding phrase “Hello Word” demonstrated more precise finger movements. Once fully trained, the researchers claim HumanPlus was successful in its movement 60-100% of the time, depending on the task. Introduce HumanPlus - Autonomous Skills partHumanoids are born for using human data.

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