<ul><li>Researchers in Switzerland have designed a robot companion that can play badminton with humans and maintain rallies up to 10 consecutive shots.</li><li>The 4-legged robot is equipped with a stereo camera for vision-based perception and a dynamic arm to swing a badminton racket.</li><li>The robot uses a reinforcement learning-based control framework to track and predict the shuttlecock's trajectory, demonstrating emergent human-like behaviors while playing badminton.</li><li>The team aims to enhance the robot's athletic capabilities further by incorporating human pose estimation and a high-level badminton command policy based on the opponent's body movements.</li></ul>

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