Robots Aim To Top Humans At Air Hockey

Posted by timothy on Wednesday July 9, 2008 @09:17AM 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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Re:Terrible video... by Anonymous Coward · 2008-07-09 10:00 · Score: -1, Redundant

Seconded. The "video" is a new level of horrible. I've taken better footage with my cellphone.
Re:The only real sport by wondershit · 2008-07-09 10:14 · Score: 0, Redundant

I won't be worried until computers start to beat us at bear pong.
... or maybe at Chess Boxing