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Engineering Students Build Robotic Foosball Players

Posted by Soulskill on from the taking-over-the-world-one-table-at-a-time dept.

Andre writes "As their final-year project, an eight-man team of fourth-year electrical and computer-engineering students at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, constructed a robot-controlled, motor-and-actuator foosball table capable of playing against human opponents in a two-on-two fashion; one mechanical player controls two defensive rods (goalies and full-backs) and the other controls two offensive rods (half-backs and forwards). They considered the computers 'medium-skilled' players in that they were very competitive against beginners and fairly competitive against intermediates."

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  1. ?fi tahW:eR by rs232 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No as it would be a mirror image, an easier way would be to rotate the table .. :)

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