{"id":1381,"date":"2011-10-21T12:22:25","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T16:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2011-10-21T13:48:28","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T17:48:28","slug":"ping-pong-playing-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2011\/10\/21\/ping-pong-playing-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"Ping-pong-playing Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the soon-robots-will-take-over-everything department, Chinese robots playing ping-pong:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"450\" height=\"253\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vkk8kMm08cA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed width=\"450\" height=\"253\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vkk8kMm08cA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>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&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Also &#8211; why does the future (the present, that is) look so much like the BBC spoof <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/an-authentically-fake-look-at-computer-games-in-the-1980s\">Look Around You<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230; Also &#8211; why does the future (the present, that is) look so much like the BBC spoof Look Around You?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}