Robot Baseball Players
July 24th, 2009
Developed by the University of Tokyo, two baseball robots, play nearly flawlessly. A pitcher and a batter. This pair doesn’t make Millions per year, instead they probably cost that much.
The pitcher is sporting an arm from MIT along with a three-fingered hand that can open and close 10 times per second and can deliver a strike zone pitch 90% of the time. While the batting robot wields a 1000fps camera that can track the pitch in realtime. It’s no surprise that it connects with the ball almost every time it’s in the strike zone. Video below
