OMRON Table Tennis Robot 2015 Edition

OMG. John Connor was right.
We must....destroy.....skynet.

Haha Suga D! The future scares me..but this was still awesome! Of course it's made for beginners but the technology is insane

The technology to beat a human player already exists except for perhaps the mechanics. It is just a matter of time, money, and priority before some nerd or more likely, a team of nerds, make a robot that that will kick ass and these nerd probably will have little true TT skill between the lot of them. The nerd will use physics and math instead of myths and opinion. I also think making faster and reliable mechanics is important. The computing power already exists.

The camera(s) would need to be able to focus on more than just the ball. The opponents paddle is very important.

Raazz, you should be scared. It isn't like skynet will get us. The social upheaval caused by automation putting unskilled and low skill workers out of a job is already happening slowly.

I/we have helped to automate machines or whole assembly lines and 20 people are without jobs. I/we have updated machines and suddenly one machine does the job of 3 machines.

Soon taxi cabs will not have taxi cab drivers. Neither will delivery trucks or buses. At the airport there is a machine that scans my passport and asks me questions now.

Suga D said:

OMG. John Connor was right.
We must....destroy.....skynet.

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too late....

I saw a robot in a garage, built up by a private person some time ago and I found it again. He uses 4 cameras and some coo mechanical devices have a look:


but to act against some spin is hard to practice with the robot. solution could be to a striped pattern on the ball so the cameras can calculate the revolutions per second or something like that. but it´s a nice idea, anyway!

aaah forgot, the man needed 2 years to develop this robot alone! ... here is his blog: https://ulfhoffmannroboter.wordpress.com/

He also mentions the Kuka-robot which played against Timo Boll. I was not convinced by this robot, it ooked like it can do crazy stuff but was not as good as I expected.

And here you can see 2 robots play against each other:
That was 4 years ago. But I don´t think the humans will be replaced by robots at a wonderful sport like table tennis

Suga D said:

OMG. John Connor was right.
We must....destroy.....skynet.

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Too late now the cat is out of the bag, Pnachtwey is actually a pseudonym for SkyNet. Now we know why only his racket made an appearance in that famed video. We should have known. All of us have already been put on a list of trouble makers that SkyNet will choose to make disappear in some convenient manner.

The machines are gonna take over and all we can do is sit back and watch.


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