Playing Pool with a Dual-Armed Robot

[paraderecords]

Один вопрос - зачем это надо?

[diconder]

Hmm. Wonder what other nonsense are coming out of pool/billiards world already. Lols.

[coregunner55]

aimbot~!

[YuriHisokaa]

Fucking ninjas!

[nykaenenable]

Why?



[ireallyliketoparty]

Yeah, but can it buy you a shot and rack?

[DanFrederiksen]

quite nice.

a robot can be VERY good at pool : )

[spclizdfuse1]

teach it how to bar fight then ill be impressed

[JohnBlack666id]

That thing would beat the shit out of me.

[jjpl2001email]

and next... the revelion of the machines...!

[monishfiji]

So terminators will play Pool...thats lame...

[egokick]

@monishfiji with human skulls.

[catbomber24]

cool



[rigragtag]

Fascinating stuff, even though all I saw when I clicked was ....Armed Robot.

[fridgelawless]

very clever

Skynet will just hang around in bars instead of taking over the world

[Braniti]

Cool , but when are they starting to make useful humanoid robots to do digging in mines, clean streets ,carry stuff around, replace fireman etc ... So that we can get some free time and maybe play pool instead of the robot :)

[123OrioN321]

@Braniti amen

[hervann]

@Braniti muy cierto lo que decís, pero como lo vamos a lograr si una respuesta coherente como la tuya tiene 5 votos y alguien que observo una falta en el minuto 2:14 tiene mas de 100 votos.

[naxein]

Software fail, robot touch a ball with his right hand on 2:15

[pedalla]

i only want to see golf-robot burying tiger woods at golf...

[manemanemane11]

But ... Will it blend ?

[Thales512]

@manemanemane11 LOL!!!

[scottyfactor]

my enthusiasm decreased right in the begining of the video when i saw the robot has a ground plan view :-/

[goranvu]

Humans can't have the ceiling view of the table, so it's not fair.

[bankashvids]

Wow, just the projector aiding a human playing is AWESOME!

[TucoBenedictoPax]

Science. It works, bitches.

[Mrtuzikpuzik]

пусть попробует в русский поигарть

задача:  мягкий скат свояка через весь стол на сильном боковике.

[nierth]

ok, some comments from the producer of the video:

- the stroke difficulty is only calculated based on the angular deviation of the white ball, meaning how much in degrees one can aim to the left or the right still being able to pocket the object ball. This measurement implicit includes the distance white ball - object ball, object ball - hole and the angle to pocket. No weighting of factors is necessary.

- cushion shots might be possible as soon as we get a better pool table ;-)

Thomas

[garik0093]

Всё ХУЙНЯ он МЕДЛЕЕНО играет

[davidcruzvargas]

De carajo!!!! y para jugar carambolas de fantasia? :P

[alebzibzi]

2:17, ???

[mudfly3]

@alebzibzi exactly, the blue ball is touched

[GTI8855]

Can it perform cusion and draw shots?

[luv2break]

this robot plays better than me atleast....

[LongBeachCaddilac]

stellen kann er aber noch nicht so gut^^

[Gerrardsw]

good

[stfuplznoname]

can't wait for a table tennis one

[spiritusinvacuo]

poland beware :D

[HerrBismarck]

2:15 It touched the blue ball! Man, he even knows how to cheat like a human.

[RobTFirefly]

Minnesota FAT32s.

[LeonFleisherFan]

Your robot gets lucky missing the 15 @ 1:37 and caroming it off what looks like the 2 (or is it the 4?) - LOL!! Fun little machine you've got here.

[altafnazir]

grt...!!! wud be eager to see how would be the future. keep it up guys...

[yscreth55]

what about trick shots?



[rezaletAK]

it would be boring as hell waiting for this motherfucker's turn to take a shot

[bigbad1000do7a]

ENGADGET brot me here :D

[daytripper22]

aperature science

[TheSanjMister]

lol @ foul 2:16

[JogBird]

but, can it get me a beer?

[ENGLANDTHEGREATEST]

2:17 THE ROBOT TOUCHES THE BLUE BALL LOL FAIL FAIL FAIL

[guorbatschow]

You could sell the projection system for human players as a product. I'm sure the market for that is considerable.

[jayorn]

now thats cheating

[zairman]

pool is boring. But the robot is awesome!

[s3063215]

機械人也要休閒活動?當然不是，這是德國慕尼黑理工大學設計了一­個會打桌球的機械人，

這機械人的獨特之處是打桌球時，會運用2隻手，這講求機械人雙手­的合作性，瞄準桌球則運用天花上的相機。

機械人還能靈活地在桌球桌和旁，走來走去。機械人接收來自相機的­數據，便會在電腦化成圖像數據，然後控制機械人的手和身體移動，­做出完美擊球。更與真人桌球般，擊球前想過多個擊球可行性

[PsychoCatIndustries]

Man,even the machine is better then me at pool

[mvenom101]

This is amazing pioneering, and to think it wont take many decades to refine this technology to the point it is aesthetically pleasing, and integrated as a function into humanoid robots without the need for an overhead camera. It would give as a companion to play pool against. However little we may win :P

[premierclip]

WOWOWOWWOWOW



[Isanion]

1:15

"decreases almost linearly with stroke difficulty."

-.-

And how do you measure stroke difficulty?

If it's by successful potting rate then ye, its going to be linear.

[OwnageEngine]

@Isanion Im assuming it would be some combination of angle to the pocket, distance from pocket and if there any balls near the line to the pocket.

[Isanion]

@OwnageEngine but those factors need to calibrated: what's more influential, distance or angle? In what ratio? How much is the difficulty adjusted by having a ball kissing the white?

That data needs to be gathered by experimentation.

If they gathered it by observing humans then they could possibly claim that it shows the robot's ability is comparable to that of a human's in regard to potting difficulty, but they'd need to present a lot of data comparing the robot to humans to make that claim.

[OwnageEngine]

@Isanion Its arbitrary. The stroke difficulty would be related to how inaccurate parts of the robot are. If it has trouble aiming at balls at the other side of the table, but can hit close ones accurately then distance to the ball would have more weighting. So something like D = k(Distance to ball) + m(Distance to pot) + n(sin(angle to pocket)) where k,m and n give some indiacation of how bad the robot is at certain things.

[Isanion]

@OwnageEngine

if they did do it the way you suggest then that makes the comment about the linear relation between difficulty and success even more pointless.

All it would indicate is that they did a good job at guessing what types of shots the robot would be best and worst at.

[OwnageEngine]

@Isanion How is this pointless? Its exactly the same way you measure difficulity in anything humans do. If we arent good at something, its more difficult for us. Same thing happens with the robot.

[Haroids]

@Isanion Not necessarily. =|

[nikapostol]

@Isanion Lol, exactly! They defined "stroke difficulty" as successful potting rate and then just verified that with more shots!

[Elavid]

@Isanion No, he has an algorithm to calculate the stroke difficulty for every shot. He was showing that the reuslts of that algorithm correlate linearly with the actual success rate, which is evidence that the algorithm works. He uses this algorithm during play so the robot can choose the easiest shot.

[failblorg]

@Isanion i guess it all depends on what kinda porno it watches

[T0R0RIKI]

@Isanion distance from the hole , and if u want other factors like the visibility of the target

[nburo]

@Isanion The stroke difficulty is determined using the "allowed angular difficulty", which is basically the stroke's "error" angle that allows the object ball to be pocketed. The smaller the angle is, the easier the stroke will be.

It's all on their website and article.

[tingsry]

Foul long before 

[palfreys1]

i can still beat it...

[littlestworkshop]

foul at 2:14 !!!

[MrDebauche]

2:17 !!



[MrDebauche]

2:17 !!

[zigxig]

Yay a way to cheat at pool!

[y4aser]

wow thats just amazing