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Deep Green - A Pool Playing Robot?

Posted by michael on from the bank-shot dept.

o0zi writes "A Canadian scientist has created another game-playing machine, designed for a far simpler purpose than chess: playing pool. The world's first pool-playing robot consists of a slim box that glides along tracks above a pool table, and shoots using a camera-guided cue. Deep Green pots only half the shots it plans for - supposedly the same as a below average player - but this is expected to improve."

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  1. Poll: WHICH IS BETTER by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Vote for: ceren
    Vote for: perdida
    Vote for: perdida's sister
    Vote for: mercatur
    Vote for: taco's wife
    Vote for: cowboyneal
    Vote for: rustina

  2. Screw Deep Green! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Deep Ceren, I say!

  3. Re:PERHAPS THE MORE IMPORTANT QUESTION by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, goddamn. This is outrageous!

    Unfortunately, I didn't see her at Defcon this year, but next year I'll ask for a photo too. If that sack of lard can get one, so can I.

  4. Re:Deep green homepage by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    MOD PARENT DOWN. This karma-whore just posted the link in the /. blurb...

    --
    "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
  5. A PHOTO OF THE POOL PLAYING ROBOT by Nikkodemus · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    http://users.telerama.com/~megabee/images/pimpbot. gif