India, March 18 -- Imagine stepping onto a tennis court and facing an opponent that never tires and reacts with millisecond precision. A cutting-edge robot is doing that, giving human players a not-so-easy competition. A fascinating video has recently surfaced on social media, capturing a match where the robot covers the court with incredible agility. The footage shows the machine returning powerful serves.

Humanoid robot manufacturing firm Galbot shared the video on X. "Your humanoid tennis player is here," the company wrote.

The tech company introduced LATENT, a Learning Athletic Humanoid Tennis Skills from Imperfect Human Motion Data. Galbot claims that the humanoid is the world's first real-time whole-body planning and control algor...