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00:00Could AI help badminton players up their game?
00:07U.S. Olympic badminton player Howard Xu tried out an AI-assisted program at CES 2025 in
00:15Las Vegas.
00:16It's really cool, obviously, to see it kind of come out of the machine and kind of give
00:20me some data and output that the human eye otherwise wouldn't be able to catch on.
00:25Developed by Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute, or ITRI, the training
00:31program combines high-speed cameras and a powerful AI chip.
00:36The program provides instantaneous statistical feedback and motion imagery for the player
00:42and aims to help them improve their performance.
00:45Xu said it needs fine-tuning, but it would be helpful to have data like his smash speed.
00:50It needs to be in a little bit more of a controlled environment for the cameras to really catch
00:54an accurate speed, but it's really cool because those are things that the naked eye or human
00:58eye wouldn't be able to give you exactly.
01:00At the CES showroom, cameras in a mini-court captured players smashing the shuttles.
01:06A screen nearby showed the speed of the smash.
01:09It also displayed the height of where it would have crossed over the net and where it would
01:14land.
01:15Chin Hung Wang is a division director at ITRI.
01:20Based on our system, we can provide the whole information.
01:23It's not only the report, but also we can replay the image again, so you can screen
01:31your information from the image field.
01:34Xu, who competed in Rio 2016 Olympics and the Paris 2024 Olympics, said he's excited
01:42about the future of AI in sports.
01:44We've kind of seen in some other sports right now how technical they're getting and progressing
01:49with technology.
01:50I like to use golf as an example.
01:52You see how technical and how meticulous their players are with ball spin, ball speed, height,
01:58curvature, right?
01:59And so I think those are types of things that we will start to see assimilate into racquet
02:03sports as well.