Wednesday, October 01, 2014

[krcmtwip] Robotic karate sparring partner

The killer app for humanoid robots is a sparring partner for martial arts.  One can adjust its skill/difficulty (speed and reaction time) to match your skill level, and it can also pull punches as soon as contact is made so as to avoid injuring the human.

Perhaps already virtually possible with Kinect, but I don't know if it has the time resolution to track rapidly moving limbs.

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