Collaborate Disseminate
If you want to get better at your favorite sport, there’s really no substitute to putting in more training hours. For solo activities like running or cycling that’s simple enough: …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2023: Automated Shuttle Launcher Enables Solo Badminton Practice
Badminton is not a sport that most of us think about often, and extremely rarely outside of every four years at the summer Olympics and maybe at the odd cookout …read more Continue reading Badminton Inspired Heat Shield Aims to Fly This Year
Watching robots doing sports is pretty impressive from a technical viewpoint, although we secretly smile when we compare these robots’ humble attempts to our own motoric skills. Now, a new robot named Robomintoner seeks to challenge human players, and it’s already darn good at badminton.
This is not the first time we see a racquet attached to an omnidirectional motion platform or a racquet attached to a linear motion gantry, but it’s the first time we see this special combination of both. The clever design allows the robot to move autonomously over the entire playing field on its omnidirectional wheels, …read more
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