PR2 Bests Its Creators At Pool In Five Days
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Wednesday, 16 of June , 2010 at 1:04 am
To be fair, some of PR2′s Poolshark programming team look to be pretty terrible at pool, but that doesn’t make it any less impressive that in only five days, PR2 learned how to hold and shoot a pool cue, recognize ball locations, select the best shot, and then sink it. If you’re wondering what this robot can’t do, the answer seems to be nothing (besides using stairs and round door knobs).
Willow Garage has two more of these week long ‘hackathons’ planned this month, which will include teaching PR2 how to push a cart (meh) and fetching drinks from a fridge (yes please). A robot that can play pool and fetch me beer? Hellooooo new best friend.
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Category: Artificial Intelligence,Research
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Comment by kwc
Made Wednesday, 16 of June , 2010 at 9:07 am
Teach a PR2 to fetch a beer, get a beer. Teach a PR2 to push a cart and fetch beer, get a cart of beer.
Comment by Evan Ackerman
Made Wednesday, 16 of June , 2010 at 10:14 am
Heh, point taken.
Comment by jfaust
Made Wednesday, 16 of June , 2010 at 11:04 am
Sigh… hard to see in the video but I’m actually playing with the PR2′s contraption. Not that bad I swear!
Comment by Evan Ackerman
Made Thursday, 17 of June , 2010 at 11:05 pm
Suuuuuure… ;)
Next time you guys host a robot pool night, give me a call… Hopefully when robots with cartfulls of beer will also be in attendance.
Comment by Joanna Kuyper
Made Wednesday, 14 of December , 2011 at 10:56 pm
This is exactly what I’ve been in search of all the time. Do not stop updating this web site.
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