# @anik on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DZ2ph2DtqwC
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/67027036-anik-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-06-21T16:02:45.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Anik Singal (@anik) — https://gondola.cc/anik

## Caption

I tried to beat a robot at badminton. 

By the tenth shot, I knew I was in trouble.

Meet ANYmal — a four-legged robot built by researchers at ETH Zurich. 

It tracks a shuttlecock using onboard cameras, predicts where it's going, and reacts in milliseconds to return the shot.

But here's the twist. ANYmal wasn't built for sports. 

It's a 50+ kg industrial inspection robot designed to enter places too dangerous for humans — chemical plants, disaster zones, collapsed structures filled with toxic gas.

Badminton was just the test.

And it's a brutal one. A shuttlecock travels at over 300 km/h — too fast to simply track with a camera. So ANYmal constantly repositions its entire body to keep the shuttle in view while predicting its landing point.

 Before ever stepping on a real court, it trained through thousands of virtual matches first.

The real goal was never sport. ETH Zurich used badminton to answer a harder question — can a robot react to fast, unpredictable situations in real time? 

Because that's exactly what it needs to do when entering a collapsing building or responding to an emergency where every second matters.

Would you want a robot like this showing up to help in an emergency — or does it scare you a little? Tell me below.

Save this — robotics is moving faster than most people realize.

#AINews #anik #aiupdates #FutureTech #AIRobotics

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aiupdates, futuretech, anik, ainews, airobotics

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