# This Beijing Startup Used Primitive Building Blocks to Teach a Humanoid Athletic Skills

- slug: this-beijing-startup-used-primitive-building-blocks-to-teach-a-humanoid-athletic-skills
- date: 2026-03-22
- category: Robotics

A humanoid robot built by a Beijing robotics startup can now play a sustained game of tennis against a human — and the trick isn't better hardware, it's how you teach it.

Researchers from Tsinghua University, Peking University, Galbot, and Shanghai AI Laboratory published a preprint on arXiv on ...

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