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Robots Aim To Top Humans At Air Hockey

Posted by timothy on from the air-hockey-tables-suck dept.

An anonymous reader writes "You probably knew that the Deep Blue supercomputer beats chess masters, and that last weekend a software robot defeated four poker champions. But you may have missed this one: a GE Fanuc robot is taking on humans at air hockey. The robot is powered by a special PC-board that can instantly switch between 8-bit and its 32-bit modes. The 8-bit version lost to most human players, but the 32-bit microcontroller has defeated even the best human air hockey players by a ratio of three to one."

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  1. Video by electricbern · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They could make a robot that beats human players at air-hockey but they were not able to make a watchable video or it in action? I guess it is all about specialization.

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  2. Re:Robots also top humans at arm wrestling.. by pitchpipe · · Score: 4, Insightful

    artificial intelligence is always defined as whatever a machine cannot do yet.

    I wish I had mod points, you are exactly right. It's funny how people forget that what was once thought to be something only a human could do, if a machine is able to do that task better, then of course the machine could do it better. After all, that is what it was designed for.

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