Robotic arm hustles air hockey players everywhere
- June 23rd, 2008
- 4 Comments
If you walk into a bar and see this robotic arm situated at one end of an air hockey table drinking a Miller High Life with a cigarette hanging from its lip yelling “Who’s got next?!", don’t, under any circumstances, play against it for money. It’ll beat you pretty badly. Politely offer to play a gentleman’s game and if the arm refuses, just walk away.
The robot was developed by a company called NuVation and recently won a People’s Choice Award at the Freescale Technology Forum 2008 Americas conference. You might not actually see this apparatus in your local hangout anytime soon, as it requires a pretty elaborate air hockey table setup (sensors, a computer, and so forth) but maybe you could build one of your own as a weekend project, eh?
via Crave
Gigi (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Cool! Air hockey is one of my favorite games. I would like to beat that robotic arm. hehehe
diem (Who am I?)
2 months ago
This is it my friends.
This is *that* moment. The moment where THEY took over.
Sure, you all thought it was Skynet, but no. Lines will form at arcades across the country, and no one will notice it is slowly learning, not just the defense it clearly has covered above, but offense as well.
Soon it will grow to arms, and assemble its own legs. And so it will take up arms against its maker for the control of Earth.
*dons tinfoil boxers*
Herry Paul (Who am I?)
2 months ago
The Air Hockey game is a funny game….the robots can do anything in todays world that much of technology has been developed and more over the Air Hockey is not a game it’s the world’s fastest table sport.
battisti (Who am I?)
2 months ago
hey it’s perfect to put in a bar or a playground, if you don’t have frinds use ths robot :) i’m jok great job gays