Robot Catches Two Balls at Once, Humans Wish They Could

Posted on 05/05/2011 by carlos-31 in Humanoids
Tags: DLR, Justin
It becomes more and more obvious that robots outperform humans in tasks that require speed, precision and complex computations. The video below featuring Rollin' Justin, a mobile version of the well known Justin humanoid robot from DLR, catching two balls that are thrown at it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6pPwP3s7s4

An interesting fact is that all the complex computations, that lead to predicting the ball trajectory and positioning the hand accordingly, is off-loaded to a more powerful (stationary) computer which in turn sends the digested results to the robot.

Via IEEE Spectrum.

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