Robots that play football can learn much more than kicking

Esther, who is also a professor at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), clarifies that the benefits arising from robots are not necessarily linked to the athletes who will compete with them, but to all other areas of innovation to which the techniques can be transferred. "Automatically recognizing objects, predicting their trajectories and even building exoskeletons to support people with motor disabilities are applications that could result from these studies."