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The Revenge: Timo Boll vs. KUKA Robot

November 1, 2022 6:01 pm Robert Zimmerman

An evening pause: It is a commercial for KUKA robotics, and it is a bit staged, a competition between a KUKA robot and table tennis professional Timo Bollo playing music on glasses. Nonetheless, the punchline is good. Human creativity can always beat out robotic programming.

Hat tip Alton Blevins.

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“There’s certainly something ironic about watching thousands of people watching three hundredweight of circuitry and metal trying to sort out a doorknob.”

June 7, 2015 9:32 am Robert Zimmerman

The 2015 Darpa Robotics Challenge (DRC) is underway, and you can watch!

The quote in the title gives a bit of the flavor, but this is cool engineering that will definitely have important applications in both disaster recovery as well as exploration in extreme environments.

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Highlights from the just completed 2015 robotics conference in Seattle

May 31, 2015 9:39 am Robert Zimmerman

Link here. The impression I get is of a very vibrant commercial industry now making a lot of money developing robots for a gigantic range of industrial and commercial uses. Most are industrial, but it is very clear that this technology is very steadily easing its way into public use.

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