researchers here and at herriet watt university are exploring how robotics could improve players�* motivation and performance in between sessions with their coach. during their solo practice, a motion tracking sensor attached to the squash racquet translates the player's data to the robot. it has accelerometers measuring the linear acceleration of the racket through three dimensions and gyros which measure the rotations of the racket in three dimensions, because when you hit a shot you are moving the raquet quite fast and you or i cannot really track that, but the accelerometers that we have on here, send data about 1000 times a second, we check it and we process it, using some machine learning and some ai. but there is a more serious side to all this. sport isn't the only area where humanoid robots in combination with motion sensor technology could bring value. we have been working with squash coaches and stroke physiotherapists who went on one to one individual squash coaching sessions and physiotherapy sessions. there are so many similarities in terms of the individual, repetitive nature of the exercise that both groups of people are doing. we wanted to see how possible it would be to use a very similar robotic system to be able to motivate people through the two different sides of things. the idea is that the same principles could be applied to those recovering from strokes or similar conditions.