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Baseball Robots
Professor Masatoshi Ishikawa from the University of Tokyo has created a robot that pitches and a robot that swings.
The pitching robot has a 3 fingered hand and can hit the strike zone 90% of the time.
The batting robot doesn’t swing at anything outside of the strike zone and hits with almost 100% accuracy thanks to [...]
Robocup 2009
Robocup 2009 is currently underway in Graz Austria. For more information on what Robocup is and does, check out this PDF brochure.
The current standard platform used is the humanoid NAO by Aldebaran Robotics. This replaced the highly popular four legged league, which used the Sony Aibo.
Robocup organizers hope that by 2050 they can create a [...]