
Japanese Technology Feature2020 Venue
Robot Lends Hands Training Japan’s 2020 Olympic Volleyball TeamsA set of hands shoots up faster than schoolchildren keen to impress their teacher. But instead of a classroom, we’re inside Japan’s National Training Center in Tokyo, and the raised arms belong not to bright-eyed kids, but a multi-limbed robot that’s lending a hand training Japan’s volleyball players. The “block machine” robot was designed to assume the role of opposing players whose role is to “block” …