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Posted by: Draco18s Jun 14 2011, 03:06 PM

Video does a better job of explaining than I do

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=27d_1308001656

Very neat stuff.

Posted by: James McMurray Jun 14 2011, 03:21 PM

Great, now even robots are going to beat me at basketball.

Posted by: Draco18s Jun 14 2011, 03:53 PM

And baseball, juggling, and tennis.

Posted by: Adarael Jun 14 2011, 04:14 PM

This is just about the coolest robot news I've seen in years.

Posted by: hobgoblin Jun 14 2011, 07:50 PM

I get a feeling i have seen that video some years ago.

Posted by: Draco18s Jun 14 2011, 07:54 PM

Digging around YouTube, yeah, it's about 2 years old.

Posted by: James McMurray Jun 14 2011, 09:28 PM

So wait, then this means that robots have been beating me at basketball for at least two years already? I knew it!!!

Posted by: Mongoose Jun 15 2011, 02:24 PM

Basketball, no. Pingpong, maybe. Foosball, almost certainly.

Posted by: CanRay Jun 15 2011, 03:42 PM

*Sigh* I miss playing with robots...

Posted by: Draco18s Jun 15 2011, 04:02 PM

I miss having missed playing with robots. Meaning, I wish I had had the opportunity to.

Posted by: Tymeaus Jalynsfein Jun 15 2011, 06:18 PM

Your fantasies have no place here Canray...

Posted by: CanRay Jun 15 2011, 06:21 PM

... Actually.

No, not going there.

In truth, I worked with a few industrial robots and their programming while I was in Junior High, and took quite a few courses that used the Lego Technic kits with a variety of different programmable "Read-Sometimes Memory" CPUs that were horrendously expensive while in High School.

Was good training for my later job as a Computer Bench and Field Tech when my boss was amazed that I grounded myself as frequently as I did. After a component got fried by someone else... Well, you get the picture.

Made one "Truck" that was the size of a lunchbox and was able to pull... Well, we stopped at twenty-five pounds.

Posted by: James McMurray Jun 15 2011, 06:23 PM

Ah, nothing like the smell of ozone to get everybody in a lab freaked out. Especially if you're dealing with components that cost more than you make in a year.

Posted by: CanRay Jun 15 2011, 06:25 PM

Luckily, it was a NIC. NBD, but I did get to say, "I told you so.". The boss was thinking of those bracelets that you hook into a electrical plug's ground, but we moved around too much for those to be practical.

Posted by: James McMurray Jun 15 2011, 06:29 PM

My degree was CS, not CSEE, so I never went near the hardware. But we did have a guy fry one of the boards in an F-16 display's CPU. Needless to say, management wasn't happy.

Posted by: Tymeaus Jalynsfein Jun 15 2011, 06:36 PM

Ouch...

Posted by: Draco18s Jun 15 2011, 06:54 PM

Aww, I feel left out. I never got to play with expensive hardware.

Posted by: Tanegar Jun 15 2011, 07:54 PM

Now we know what a cyberarm customized for Agility and Reaction looks like. Very cool.