Robot Arm Bowling Deathmatch Of Death
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Monday, 24 of September , 2007 at 2:21 am
By Evan Ackerman
The thing about robots is, even if they’re designed to do practical stuff, they’re just so cool that you can’t help playing with them whenever the opportunity arises. CMU’s robotics manipulation class fell victim to this temptation by staging a head-to-head bowloff between two robot arms. The premise was simple: try and get the most pegs into the opponent’s goal, while protecting your own goal. The exact methods were up to each team (note how each arm throws slightly differently, for example), and some of the tactics got pretty involved:
Robot bowling. Doesn’t get much better than that.
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