Video does a better job of explaining than I do

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

Very neat stuff.

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

And baseball, juggling, and tennis.

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

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

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

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

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

*Sigh* I miss playing with robots...

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

Your fantasies have no place here Canray...

... 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.

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.

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.

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.

Ouch...

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

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