Simba S7 PLAYING POOL

Here's how it's done:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYX2denmtOE

of course it's real.

It would only be slightly impressive if the Simba S7 set up the balls. It's not called a trick shot for nothing.

I was at a robotics expo where a robot racked and then cleared the table shot by shot all day long with little failure and at high speed.

It was an eye opening example of the coordination between machine vision and robotics.

This demo shows a piston extending.

welcome to CR4 btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AENJxqR0g48

Unremarkable.

It's a machine.

It'll get really impressive when the laser tracks out curved lines to account for english, draw, follow, etc.

This is BS.

poolboyone is either a kid, or a marketeer for the robot company.

Nothing that is done here, in SE's link, or any other trick pool shot video is remotely impressive.

Robot welders and robot painters, impress me. They actually serve a useful purpose.

This↓ really impresses me:

Da Vinci Surgical System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I've had a personal experience with one of these.

I concur that Da Vinci is a great surgical tool. It can really minimize if not completely remove any tremors /gaits on a surgeon's hands!

Thus enhancing patient's safety a bit more since it is mostly on laparoscopic procedures!

So what we have here is a hydraulic or pneumatic 'pile driver' with programmable stroke length and speed (aka power). It is precise and consistent with its strokes, so that it can execute a preset pool trick shot.

I can see where that can be useful for mining; a higher precision and accuracy when drilling means smaller holes are drilled, and they are drilled faster. That means less of an air gap between the charge and the coal seam, so more energy is transferred right to the ore, reducing the size of the charge needed, and faster hole drilling shaves a few minutes off the prep time, so more blasts can be done per day, and more coal removed.

It would be even more impressive if we weren't trying to wean ourselves off coal. This isn't quite the Dreamcast⁽¹⁾ of the coal industry, but it feels really close.

Notes:

1. That was the last game console put out by Sega, before it closed down its hardware division and focused solely on software. It was an impressive piece of technology, a clear step or two ahead of the competition, but it just wasn't enough to save the fading division.
   

I haven't drilled holes for blasting, but I've beat the hell out of more than one SDS-MAX drill using up to 36" bits to bore into or through stone, brick and reinforced concrete.

I don't think there is any way that my sloppy human arms could have made the holes less round or larger than the bit as you seem to suggest. The speed of the cut is related to the quality of the bit, the drill, and the pressure applied as well as the material being drilled.

I guess that if I were drilling coal a bouncy bit could be an issue. point taken