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Kiro, the Foosball Robot
JasonFleischer writes "Although the official line from the RoboCup competition is that robots should be ready to challenge humans on the soccer
field by the year 2050, we don't have to wait that long to see man-machine
competition in the bar.
Researchers in Germany have developed a table football (foosball, table soccer, whatever) robot. The human challenger(s) take the red team, while the machine works the blue side, using an overhead video camera to see what's happening on the table. The conference paper shows that while the machine generally wins against the normal bar-amatuer it has no chance against a human grandmaster. But these kinds of things are always improving, after all look how big a deal the man-machine chess competition turned out to be. So perhaps the current table football world champions should be watching their backs."
Indeed, indeed. There were conspiracy theories about giving non-subscribers a "sneak preview" at what the subscriber sees. Then there were the trolls about how ugly the colours were and how they considered themselves fortunate for not subscribing. They might be onto something there, the whole red/blue/green thing IS pretty ugly, IMO. Anyway, so what was the bug? Any enlighteners? Also, what caused the whole "logged out" thing when the bug was apparently fixed? This isn't the first time it's happened, either.
Inquiring minds want to know.
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you know, this isn't on the front page, but if you read the last article, about India and OSS, you could click on the link. Kinda funny, gave me a first post, and this thought is definitely insightful, informative, and interesting.
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So you are an American, right? Brits do not write ass, they write arse!
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