Overview
- Galbot staged a live human-robot tennis demonstration at the Second World Humanoid Robot Games, which took place on Saturday, and said its humanoid machines completed more than 100 consecutive autonomous rallies.
- Reporters at the opening ceremony observed robots exchanging forehands and backhands with human players, moving to track high-speed balls, selecting shots and recovering from falls to continue play.
- Galbot’s announcement, issued through a company press release, frames the result as a new milestone for real-time physical intelligence but does not include independent third-party verification of the 100+ rally figure.
- The company says the robots use a training framework called LATENT that breaks tennis into reusable motion primitives and uses simulation and reinforcement learning to combine those motions into full rallies.
- The demonstration took place inside a larger five-day competition that now features 51 events and over 2,000 humanoid robots, a venue organisers use to test robots in dynamic sports and real-world scenario tasks.