You’ve probably heard of BattleBots, but how about a boxing robot? Meet Nadia, the human controlled robot showcasing its boxing capabilities and beyond.
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00:03 - Fighting robots may have historically
00:05 looked a little something like this,
00:07 but now researchers want to make it life-size and more lifelike.
00:11 This is Robert Griffin from the Institute
00:13 for Human and Machine Cognition.
00:14 And this is the boxing robot his team have been working on,
00:17 named Nadia.
00:18 It's controlled by a human, and they're
00:20 hoping that showcasing its boxing capabilities
00:22 will reveal how capable a robot like this really is.
00:25 - In this video, we're not actually running arms nearly
00:27 as fast as they can go.
00:29 They're not really hitting very hard either.
00:31 - So how hard can it hit?
00:32 Well, that's the thing.
00:33 They don't really know yet.
00:35 - Well, these new arms are really strong.
00:37 We haven't actually fully measured how strong they are.
00:40 We haven't really done tests by seeing how much they can lift
00:42 or how hard they can push.
00:44 But we haven't actually come close to pushing
00:46 the limits on its strength.
00:47 We don't actually know how much weight could the robot lift,
00:50 how much can it curl, anything like that.
00:52 - Griffin says he thinks it could be at least 30% faster
00:55 and punch at least 30% harder.
00:57 But that's not really their goal.
00:58 He and his team want to replace humans
01:00 who do dangerous jobs like disaster cleanup
01:02 with robots controlled by those very individuals,
01:05 meaning they want one-to-one input control, movement, speed,
01:08 and mobility to be the end game.
01:10 Pretty cool.
01:10 And in the meantime, we can't help
01:12 but hope this inspires a new competitive sport.
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