Could This Boxing Robot Help Out Disaster Response and Sports at the Same Time?

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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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00:00Fighting robots may have historically looked a little something like this but

00:07now researchers want to make it life-size and more lifelike. This is

00:11Robert Griffin from the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition and this is

00:15the boxing robot his team have been working on named Nadia. It's controlled

00:19by a human and they're hoping that showcasing its boxing capabilities will

00:22reveal how capable a robot like this really is. In this video we're not

00:26actually running arms nearly as fast as they can go they're not really hitting

00:30very hard either. So how hard can it hit? Well that's the thing they don't really

00:34know yet. Well these new arms are really strong you know we haven't actually

00:37fully measured how strong they are you know we haven't really done tests by

00:41seeing how much they can lift or how hard they can push but we haven't

00:44actually come close to pushing the limits on its strength you know we don't

00:47actually know how much weight could the robot lift how much can it curl anything

00:51like that. Griffin says he thinks it could be at least 30% faster and punch

00:55at least 30% harder but that's not really their goal. He and his team want

00:59to replace humans who do dangerous jobs like disaster cleanup with robots

01:03controlled by those very individuals meaning they want one-to-one input

01:06control movement speed and mobility to be the endgame. Pretty cool and in the

01:10meantime we can't help but hope this inspires a new competitive sport

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