An autonomous badminton robot that can return 1,452 shots in a row
Shenchen Kaidong just built an autonomous robot practice partner called XA1 that predicts shuttle trajectories and repositions itself to return shots without any teleoperation. It handles clears, net drops, and smashes with an over 96% hit rate, even setting a Guinness World Record with 1,452 consecutive counter-hits. Why it matters: badminton is a brutal benchmark for embodied AI, proving robots can coordinate vision and fast mobility in real-time.