OctArm a Soft Robotic Manipulator

Hitting and batting tasks, such as tennis forehands, ping-pong strokes, or baseball batting, can be learned using motor primitives Here, we first show how a robot is given several different forehands for imitation learning. After learning, the forehands are tried on first on a static target to show the natural smoothness and speed of the learned movement. Subsequently, they are shown to work even with balls shot by a ball gun.