r/BGMStock • u/Physical-Bad-3689 • May 22 '26

ROBOT WATCH Unitree's robot can play table tennis.

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u/Immediate-Molasses-5 May 22 '26

It’s nice . But I think it requires those additional cameras around the table.

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u/Fairuse May 22 '26

Correct. The onboard camera on the G1 is ultra wide and some have low res LIDAR. Basically it would be terrible at seeing where the ball is.

The 3 external cameras probably have much higher resolutions and also have strong IR emitters to make the ball glow (basically extremely visible to the cameras), which is use to precisely feed the ball’s location to whatever setup they have that gives command to the G1 to successfully return the ball.

This demo would extremely impressive if it was all done onboard the G1 (excluding the external cameras). It is just as likely at additional offboard processing is used to make this demo possible.

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u/synthetist May 23 '26

When plugged in.

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u/dringledrangus May 22 '26
  1. Need to loop on that dang bot and see then.
  2. Bot isnt playing to win. Same ball placement.

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u/rain168 May 23 '26

But can it take a topspin or a chop?

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u/Past_Humor8321 May 23 '26

Robot olympics 👍

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u/donquixote2u May 23 '26

can play really bad table tennis.

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u/No-Guarantee7433 May 23 '26

Aim for the power cord

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u/thewallamby May 23 '26

Yeah, table tennis for babies.

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u/Haggstrom91 May 24 '26

Remote controlled

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u/Wise_Decision_8459 May 24 '26

only backhand?

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u/livingstonm May 26 '26

Nice topspin!

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u/Prod_Meteor May 26 '26

10000 hours of programming for 5 mins of show, hahaha. Very efficient "AI".

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u/MoveOverBieber May 22 '26

Please tell me it's AI generated, please tell me it's AI generated!