Robot learns boxing's kinetic chain, punches 6x harder within hours
dee_hw · x · 2026-11-15
The author spent a Sunday teaching a robot the boxing "kinetic chain" — how punch power travels from the ground through legs, hips, and shoulders rather than the arm alone. The robot learned fast: within a couple of hours its trained policy was hitting 6x harder, pivoting its rear foot and rotating its hips to generate power. A striking demo of embodied robots quickly acquiring human athletic technique.
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