Robot 'Justin' Catches Balls Tossed in its Direction

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Justin is a robot developed at German Aerospace center DLR. I saw him at CeBit 2009 (2nd video), where he is serving ice tea. Now he learns some new tricks, like catching balls or making coffee. Very impressive!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAHCineyHlk
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Wow. Yes, really

Wow.  Yes, really impressive.

I like the fact his arms look like several Kuka LWR’s put together

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Yes, Kuka LWRs were used as

Yes, Kuka LWRs were used as arms. As far as I can remember a seperate server rack is needed to control the robot. Not shown in the video. Each Kuka Arm needs his own control PC as shown here:

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This is the back side of the 'Desire' robot.