Ping-pong-playing Robots

In the soon-robots-will-take-over-everything department, Chinese robots playing ping-pong:

A pretty good showing, but frustrating when you think about how much work went into this. Identifying ball, trajectory, trajectory after bounce, arm movement etc…

Also – why does the future (the present, that is) look so much like the BBC spoof Look Around You?

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