Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Meet the Robot Ball Catcher of Tomorrow



This robot is made for catching can nab up anything thrown from 5 meters away with 80% accuracy. It even has the pizazz to grab a ball in each of its 4-fingered hands at the same time. To achieve these feats in retrieving, Rollin’ Justin is equipped with a fast image-recognition, and control software that's linked to off-board computers which predict the balls trajectory every 20 milliseconds.

Be sure to check out New Scientist to see a video of Rollin’ Justin in action.

16 comments:

  1. I had a toy robot as a kid. They are so interesting!

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  2. Just imagine a giant one of these that could fly, and have the ability to catch a rocket mid-air and defuse it before it blows up. That would be incredible, and probably well into the future

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  3. off board computers? won't be impressed till it's all onboard.

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  4. It looks like a Mega Man X robot. Awesome.

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  5. I'm tellin' ya, robots are gonna take over sports. ><

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  6. And so the age of the robot begins..

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  7. That is one strange-looking robot. The colour is nice tho.

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  8. Wow cool. Too pitty however that all these robots are specialized still, everyone doing one special thing really well but can't probably find home alone

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  9. I love robots, and this one is no exception.

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  10. Huge step for robotics. Just imagine what they'll be able to do in a few years if all goes well.

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  11. That's ridiculously cool. Glad to see such improvements are being made in the technological world.

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