Humanoid Robots Mimic Nadal, Federer Styles via Broadcast Footage
RickyTQChen · x · 2026-08-22
The AdaPT framework extracts motion styles from TV broadcasts of players like Federer and Nadal, retargeting them to Unitree G1 and Dobot Atom robots for rallies and serves. It addresses sim2real degradation in decoupled planning-and-tracking via speed adaptation. Note: deployment relies on external motion capture, not onboard vision.
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