RAI Institute's AthenaZero arms catch, throw and bat baseballs using compliant joints

The Robotics and AI Institute has presented AthenaZero, a fixed two-armed robot torso with three-fingered hands whose compliant joints and fast actuators absorb impacts. In tests it caught balls gently, threw them hard and hit them with a bat. The work, published in Science Robotics, aims at more dynamic manipulation in real environments.

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