Usain Bolt's training robot

January 17, 2020

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The sportswear brand has developed BeatBot, a robot capable of rolling alongside sprinters at any speed and distance, to allow them to improve their performance.

In three months, the Rio Olympic Games will begin. The best sprinters of the planets will be at the start of the Maracana stadium track to push the limits of human speed. Among them, a man will try to defend for the last time his status as the best athlete of all time: Usain Bolt. To be able to measure up to its legendary strides, Puma, the sponsor of the Jamaican champion, invented BeatBot, a robot capable of accompanying athletes during their training, presented by the brand in a ehealth published on April 29 on Youtube.

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BeatBot: to measure up to the speed of Usain Bolt

Designed with the help ofMIT students and NASA researchers, this fully automated robot connects via Bluetooth to an iPhone on which an application allows you to enter the speed objectives and schedule the next race session. Using its four wheels, BeatBot launches at full speed on the track to reproduce the reference time of the athlete. IIt’s even possible to compete with Usain Bolt’s world records of 9.58 seconds per 100 meters, taking the Puma robot at a top speed of 44.66 km / h.

For long distance runners and runners

In addition to serving athletes over short distances, BeatBot can also be used by cross-country skiers, who have to run long distances. In this provision, it will serve above all to benchmark on the average speed to adopt to improve endurance.

To reproduce these performances and accompany the athlete throughout his race, BeatBot consists of a accelerometer, from GoPro cameras able to record races, and infrared sensors allowing you to follow the lines of the athletics track and make more than 100 adjustments per second. In addition, the smartphone application will allow you to measure yourself against the records of your friends and most certainly, to publish your latest performances on social networks.

A robot that remains for the moment in prototype phase, but which deserved a little promotion campaign for the German brand and the Jamaican runner, present on the presentation ehealth. For now, only Puma-sponsored athletes can rub shoulders with the developer BeatBot.

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