Photos by Tom Lupton of the Martial Arts Robot sparring Dr. Wan-Yik Lee, consultant to the project.
Just as Kasparov beat Big Blue, after a struggle, Wan-Yik won the first ever martial arts bout with a machine. The Austin American Statesman described the early prototype as "a reasonable imitation of a karate expert."
Ongoing performance and control improvements will focus the robot's superhuman speed into greater agility. The next human to sparr the machine may well lose on a point score basis.
Assembled for Chris Dodd, London Sunday Times, Dick Stanley, Austin American Statesman, and Joel Donnet and Raphael Gaillarde of Gamma International.
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