The Technium

One Trick At a Time

At the moment, this baseball hitting robot is marvelous. Amazing it works at all, though it needs to swing harder. In a few years, it will seem as obvious and boring as a wheel, as better models come up to the plate. Really smart, capable robots will not appear in a flash. They will creep upon us one tiny trick at a time.

Posted on January 8, 2008 at 12:20 AM | Comments (1)



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Get a big roomba to pick up balls in the field and ship them back to the pitcher. Let the game continue for days.

A very big robotics project is Robo-Soccer. The goal is to have a team of humanoids beat the World Cup winners by 2050. I’m sure they’ll make it.

Posted by Ivan Kirigin on January 14, 2008 at 6:47 PM


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