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Ishikawa Komuro Laboratories are doing some amazing stuff with robots right now. The video above starts out looking like a clumsy and somewhat failed attempt at dribbling a ping pong ball. Once it goes into slow motion however, we see the true action. This robot is dribbling that ball amazingly. Utilizing 1000 FPS cameras, it readjusts and hits the ball on every bounce. As the ball drifts out of the reach of the bot, suddenly we are struck with the lifelike motion. Personification can be a fleeting thing, appearing so strongly as the little bot tries in vain to reach for that ball, then disappearing again an instant later. If you really want to see some personification worthy of the crab fu challenge, check out their tool manipulation by a multi fingered hand video.
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Wow.
amazing.
scary.
nothing else to say.
That’s impressive
Wow, I would love to have the money to work on a project like that…
I want to hug that ball-bouncing robot.
Very neat. I feel like there is a lot of extraneous motion in the first demo, so I’m curious what kind of system they’re using to guide the motion.
Holy crap, did anyone show this to the Geekologie Writer?
I for one welcome our supersonic robot overlords…
Any faster and i would be worried about the strength of the ball…
oh, great. Now the robots are gonna kick human’s ass in a snap when they uprise…
How much longer until we have Robot basketball? This would be epic
impressionante
Wow
Wow
Wow
I wonder what kind of actuators they’re using. That kind of speed seems a bit beyond the usual actuators used in robotics. Maybe they’re using pneumatic ones?
So you pen spinners can sit the f down…
Now all we need is a basketball playing robot.
oh my comment was already said. damn
watch out kobe, a new mvp is in town.
Someone give it one of those paddles with the rubber balls on the elastic cord. That I’d like to see.
someone give it a paddle and a human opponent on the other side of a ping pong table.
Once the robots combine this with the ability to run and jump, humans will be crushed in the world of basketball. Then, everyone will be crackin’ wise about our mommas…
OMG, its the begining of the end of the world.
where did they get the CPU to process all that so fast? track ball position -> move robot, in such short time…
hooo, i think i just saw a cluster
Wow O.O, that’s unbelievably fast. At this rate were all going to have to become cyborgs to do anything useful.
Thanks for the video find, pretty insane.
Don’t worry guys, Will Smith will save us.
Otherwise, assimilation wouldn’t be to bad if I got hands like that.
Remember the scene in “Aliens” where Lance Henriksen does that knife trick between Bill Paxon’s fingers?
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/aliens-aliens-knife-trick/1589189410
take that thing to vegas and find someone trying the 3 card monty. shut him down
absolutely amazing!!!! need i say more? ya. absolutely f-en amazing! need i say more? ya
im verry impressed! aw-struck actually!
my first thought was “great, we’re all dead.”
I, for one, welcome our new ninja robotic overlords.
as slashdot readers would say..
Handy!
WORD, SICK degrees of freedom !! Absolutely amazing, when will they be attached to a bipedal humanoid ? :D
Nobody would watch bball with robots after a week of novelty.
Also the speed is probably only possible with very light objects, foam balls, the heavier it gets the slower it gets since otherwise the strength needed would grow exponential, and then the drives/actuators would not be able to move so fast, fast yes but not adaptive and at the video’s speed I bet, albeit still faster than humans I think.
The movies take a lot of liberties with physics.
This is one step closer to much-needed prostheses for amputees. Kinda like I, Robot. It never ceases to amaze me how there’s always someone just around the bend with something better/faster than what someone just designed.
Ok, I want to see it catch an egg now…
;-D
-Adam
Awesome, I can’t wait for my exoskeleton. Also, Robogames can add robot tennis…
@M4CGYV3R: OMG YES! Quickly, mail these guys a paddle+ball on elastic with a note attached. Request a video. K thx
There is a better video (from ICRA 2009 robotics conference) over on Hizook.com — http://www.hizook.com/blog/2009/08/03/high-speed-robot-hand-demonstrates-dexterity-and-skillful-manipulation
The robot is really amazing , i liked this video too much and i forwarded this video to my all friends.
oGWXU1 good game! i liked it too