Robots can now do many tasks humans can do and sometimes even better. Take the AthenaZero: it is a 1.6m tall dual-arm robot that can now juggle balls barehanded with feedback from its on-board vision system. As the RAI Institute explains, this robot has a 1-degree torso, 2 x 7 DOF arms and 2 x 6 DOF underactuated hands. This robot has max payload capacity of 6.6lb. It has already been tested playing baseball. It can throw balls at 113kmh. This video shows it juggling balls like a pro.
This robot can perform all kinds of juggling patterns, including the half shower, tennis, shower, and cascade. It can switch between them without losing track of the balls. AthenaZero is effective at this due to the fact that it is not using task specific end effectors like cups. Skills such as the cascade are learned in under 10 minutes on hardware.
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