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Robot Plays Table Tennis

Posted March 08, 2014 8:42 PM

From Neatorama:

Industrial mechanic Ulf Hoffmann built the robot called UHTTR-1, which plays table tennis with the aid of its own camera. It doesn't miss a shot, it's just not as aggressive as some players I've seen -yet. But what a great practice partner! Learn more about it at Hoffmann's blog, if you can read German, or you might prefer the Google translation. He mentions that his son added text and music to the video so "it is not so boring." I found the tennis anything but boring!

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03/10/2014 4:23 AM

What's with that "never misses" business? Did somebody not watch the video?

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03/11/2014 8:41 PM

I was thinking, after watching it give up a number of points, that they must be referring to it never failing to have the paddle contact the incoming ball, but at 1:59, it doesn't seem like that happened.

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Whoever wrote the headline didn't watch the video very closely.

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