Ball catching robot, 80% accuracy in 5 milliseconds (w/ video)

Ninja robot soon to follow...I'm sure of this.

Video didn't work for me. Try this link

http://www.youtub...PwP3s7s4

Video didn't work for me. Try this link

http://www.youtub...PwP3s7s4

They should get together with these researchers

http://www.youtub...jVlaLBmk

Next they'll be catching bullets.

antialias: In the WWIII, they will. ;)

Great videos, gentlemen! Kind of makes me want to make a robot.

can an an electric motor joint achieve speeds necessary for bullet catching? even if it was possible to calculate bullet position and trajectory instantly, what kind of motors would handle the arms?

Humans average about 215ms for visual reaction, with a limit towards 100. A housefly, because of its tiny optical nerve distance and relatively limited processing, can manage 20 milliseconds before responding to stimuli. At 5ms, This machine thinks 4 times quicker than a fly apparently.

With some modifications, this machine COULD potentially block bullets, even with just human speed. If it only has to move an arm 50cm to block the bullet, and it can spot a 450m/s bullet at 2.25 meters out the barrel, then, at a perfectly achievable arm speed of 20m/s, it could grab the bullet when fired from 13.5 meters (11.25 meters plus reacting/calculating time) away...

Now, why you'd want to "grab a bullet" when it's the equivalent of getting shot in the hand, I don't know. Future death robots will be better off just dodging.

Actually... robot bodyguards, anyone?

cool stuff. will be even more impressive when it throws them back.
After all, playing catch is so much more fun.

The bullet would disintegrate in your grasp even if you caught it. The robots would need hands/shields made of a hardened material immune to bullet impacts. Then they could block bullets.

Strap one of those badboys on your back and laugh as the terrorists try to shoot you.

The robot could just tap the bullet to send it off course. This way most of the kinetic energy isn't transferred to the hand.

More likely the robot will kill/disarm the gunman before he can even tell his little finger to pull the trigger.

I wonder how fast robot legs will be able to get to 60 mph?

"It's ok Chris. I am pretty sure she would have crushed your scrote into a Diamond with her robot strength arm." - Stewie

Cool. Now rich dads can buy a standin.

Now if they can get 'em to throw and swing a bat, we'd have BASE WARS in no time!
(http://en.wikiped...se_Wars)
Rollin' Justin actually kinda looks like the one batting... wierd.