Can a Robot Shoot an Olympic Recurve Bow? A preliminary study
Guilherme Christmann, Lin Yu-Ren, Rodrigo da Silva Guerra, and Jacky, Baltes

TL;DR
This study demonstrates a humanoid robot capable of gripping, drawing, and shooting a recurve bow at targets up to 50 meters, marking progress in robotic archery and sports competitions.
Contribution
We introduce a humanoid robot that can perform archery tasks, including shooting at 10 and over 50 meters, showcasing advancements in robotic dexterity and precision.
Findings
Robot can shoot accurately at 10 meters
Robot can shoot over 50 meters
First demonstration of humanoid archery capability
Abstract
The field of robotics, and more especially humanoid robotics, has several established competitions with research oriented goals in mind. Challenging the robots in a handful of tasks, these competitions provide a way to gauge the state of the art in robotic design, as well as an indicator for how far we are from reaching human performance. The most notable competitions are RoboCup, which has the long-term goal of competing against a real human team in 2050, and the FIRA HuroCup league, in which humanoid robots have to perform tasks based on actual Olympic events. Having robots compete against humans under the same rules is a challenging goal, and, we believe that it is in the sport of archery that humanoid robots have the most potential to achieve it in the near future. In this work, we perform a first step in this direction. We present a humanoid robot that is capable of gripping,…
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Taxonomy
TopicsRobotic Locomotion and Control · Robotics and Automated Systems
