Frank and Ernest by Thaves for April 29, 2012
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Transcript:
Robot League Baseball Interviewer: The team looks good. The pitching has really improved. Frank: They've been working hard on their mechanics. Interviewer: And the clean-up batter is hitting lots of home runs. Frank: A bigger battery is giving him more power. Interviewer: The fielding is solid, too. Frank: A software patch has eliminated most of the errors. Interviewer: But one position continues to be a problem, with lots of disabled list time. Frank: Yeah, short!
You will a be low complexity and real-time nature of the calculations necessary to detect a thrown baseball predicted trajectory and to swing a bat in such a manner as to intersect that trajectory over the plate of a baseball game (in a very limited time, from the pitch to the catchers mit is less than two seconds), I doubt that there is any computer system currently available which we do let alone a portable robotic system. Then there is the problems with developing a robot which could run the bases. and also field the hit balls (more real time calculations). To make a baseball playing robot would make hitting an incoming ICBM seem easy in comparison Besides human players are just more entertaining….