Chinese AI robotic company, Galbot, has developed software to teach a humanoid robot, Unitree G1, to play tennis with humans. The software, named LATENT (Learning Athletic Humanoid Tennis Skills from Imperfect Human Motion Data), claims to be the world's first real-time whole-body planning and control algorithm for athletic humanoid tennis. The robot can sustain multi-shot tennis matches with humans, reacting to balls traveling over 15 meters per second and producing coordinated strokes and footwork. The system had to rely on “imperfect human motion data” consisting of “motion fragments that capture the primitive skills used when playing tennis” rather than clean motion capture from “real-world tennis matches.