On-device robot practices soccer throw-ins with no external tracking
chris_j_paxton · x · 2026-10-13
A robot demo shows a machine practicing soccer throw-ins on a direct kick, with the author stressing that everything runs on-device — no external tracking or cloud compute. A neat embodiment demo of fully local perception and motion control, though details are sparse.
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