This video shows a robot developed by Nuvation Engineering playing against a human being in air hockey:
Nuvation boasts that creating a robot that can beat a person in air hockey is a great engineering achievement, and I suppose it is impressive. But there are two problems with this:
1. If you're an engineer who's smart enough to develop a robot like this, shouldn't you be focusing on more important things?
2. The human playing against the robot in the above video is just about the worst air hockey player I've ever seen.
Now, I guess Nuvation says the robot has made progress since that video was shot, but I'm still skeptical. I've played quite a bit of air hockey in my day, and I'd like to challenge this robot to a game. Until then I'm not sold.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
7-10-2008 @ 9:55PM
§ said...
try the Bank Shot!
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7-10-2008 @ 10:33PM
petejayhawk said...
So...does the goofy-ass grin in your new headshot signify the dawn of a newer, lighter, more humorous MDS?
At least....until the Lions drive your soul back into the black pit of humorless NFL analysis and MMA overkill....
(whaaat? im joking. lions are SO gonna win 10 games)
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7-11-2008 @ 4:22AM
Feruw said...
I don't think that robot could beat humans. It looks incredibly impressive defensively, but it doesn't look fast enough to generate accurate hard shots on the players goal.
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7-22-2008 @ 11:13AM
Jeff the robot guy said...
>> "The human playing against the robot in the above video is just about the worst air hockey player I've ever seen."
The human isn't playing a serious game, dumbass. It's called 'testing and characterization' - give the robot lots of different types of shots, and see that it behaves correctly in all cases.
>> "I've played quite a bit of air hockey in my day..."
Air hockey is one of those games where everyone thinks they are the top dog. I'd be interested to see you play the robot too.
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