"A video shared by HKUST PhD student Yinhuai Wang shows the robot dribbling, taking jump shots, and even pivoting on one of its feet to evade the student's attempts to block it from taking a shot. Wang called it the "first-ever real-world basketball demo by a humanoid robot," boasting that he "became the first person to record a block against a humanoid." It's an impressive demo, showcasing how far humanoid robotics has come in a matter of years."
"which is described on his website as a "data-driven approach that mimics both human and ball motions to learn a wide variety of basketball skills." "SkillMimic employs a unified configuration to learn diverse skills from human-ball motion datasets, with skill diversity and generalization improving as the dataset grows," the writeup continues. "This approach allows training a single policy to learn multiple skills, enabling smooth skill switching even if these switches are not present in the reference dataset.""
Researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology programmed a Unitree G1 humanoid robot to dribble, take jump shots, and pivot to evade blocks while a human attempted to block its shots. The team captured the demonstration on video and reported a recorded block against the humanoid. The control system, called SkillMimic, uses data-driven imitation of human and ball motions to learn a range of basketball skills and trains a single policy capable of multiple maneuvers. Skill diversity and generalization improve as the human-ball motion dataset grows, enabling smooth skill switching beyond explicit examples. Public reaction blended admiration for capability with skepticism about showmanship versus fundamentals.
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