Robots becoming the future of martial arts training

So what would you do when you can't go to the gym and still want to learn or practice martial arts with a sparring partner? In these days when the gym is now getting inside your house with all sorts of workout gadgets are being invented that you can slip under your bed, why not have a sparring partner that you can keep at home?

Well, that may not be far away as just as you can find a chess partner in your computer, you may soon get a robot as your sparring partner. A certain Dr. 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'.

So what do we see in future? Already robots are being designed to fight wars, having a robotic bodyguard who is a karate first class may not be a fanciful thing after all.

Anyway, the human won the bout this time, just as Kasparov beat the super-computers before in chess only to be defeated by Deep Blue in 1997. Who knows one day the MA Robot would beat the best Zen Kung Fu master!

Read about the Human Vs Machine Karate Bout here in MMA Blogger. Thanks!