To demonstrate the latest advances in high-speed industrial robot technology, researchers at the University of Tokyo have pitted a baseball-pitching robotic arm against a mechanical batter with a near-perfect swing.
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Cool.
Wonder why it doesn’t hit the ball straight back up the middle each time…
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by bs.uf15bosox9bears23 on Jul 25, 2009 7:40 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Robot error
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Guess so.
Weird that humans can manage to pull it off every once in a while if it’s that hard to get a robot to do it.
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