--- title: 3 Questions: Using AI to help Olympic skaters land a quint description: MIT researchers developed OOFSkate, an AI-powered optical tracking system that analyzes figure skating jumps using pose estimation from video to provide... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/3-questions-using-ai-to-help-olympic-skaters-land-a-quint-ytsxyezm7 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 3 Questions: Using AI to help Olympic skaters land a quint | daily.dev og:description: MIT researchers developed OOFSkate, an AI-powered optical tracking system that analyzes figure skating jumps using pose estimation from video to provide... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/3-questions-using-ai-to-help-olympic-skaters-land-a-quint-ytsxyezm7 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ytSxYEZm7.png og:image:alt: 3 Questions: Using AI to help Olympic skaters land a quint og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 3 Questions: Using AI to help Olympic skaters land a quint **[MIT News](https://daily.dev/sources/mit)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary MIT researchers developed OOFSkate, an AI-powered optical tracking system that analyzes figure skating jumps using pose estimation from video to provide performance recommendations. The system tracks physical metrics like rotation speed and jump height, comparing them against elite athletes' data and predicting judging scores. New research is exploring whether AI evaluates aesthetic performance similarly to human judges by studying differences between expert, novice, and AI assessments of figure skating. The technology will be used during the 2026 Winter Olympics to help NBC explain complex scoring systems, and researchers believe a quintuple jump is physically possible within the next few years. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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