China’s Unitree G1 humanoid robot plays tennis after training on 5 hours of amateur motion capture data from five players.

Tennis players are a sensitive bunch, and people like Ron Rocchi are forever trying to soothe them. Rocchi, an equipment manager at Wilson, runs the racket stringing shop at this year’s U.S. Open. Its ...

A table tennis-playing robot can keep up a rally against humans, but like many amateur players, it struggles when attempting fancier shots. The researchers ran this simulation so that a machine ...