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http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-ping-pong-robots-debut-china-video.html
Topio was a Terminator-looking robot with a chiseled torso and formidable size. Its processors and artificial neural network were able to analyze the balls path. There was elsewhere a show of flying quadrocopters whacking the ball back to a human player at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology's Flying Machine Arena in Zurich.
Last week's debut of the robots in China was impressive nonetheless.
The Zhejiang University robots served, returned balls, and scored with the aid of their technology. Each robot has motorized joints that provide backhand and forehand capabilities and a number of arm movements. Each robot is 1.6 meters tall and weighs 55 kg.
Xiong Rong, the director of the university's Robotics Laboratory, said the 30-joint robots took them four years to develop.
Topio was a Terminator-looking robot with a chiseled torso and formidable size. Its processors and artificial neural network were able to analyze the balls path. There was elsewhere a show of flying quadrocopters whacking the ball back to a human player at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology's Flying Machine Arena in Zurich.
Last week's debut of the robots in China was impressive nonetheless.
The Zhejiang University robots served, returned balls, and scored with the aid of their technology. Each robot has motorized joints that provide backhand and forehand capabilities and a number of arm movements. Each robot is 1.6 meters tall and weighs 55 kg.
Xiong Rong, the director of the university's Robotics Laboratory, said the 30-joint robots took them four years to develop.
