China robot challenges human players in badminton

[anzonix]

Id be interested to see Linust battle this creation. Source

[tlink]

interesting, quite sad that they don't explain how he does this advanced spacial self awareness.

[Sauron]

15 minutes ago, tlink said:

interesting, quite sad that they don't explain how he does this advanced spacial self awareness.

I'm going to guess it uses the field lines for reference and calculates its position based on how it moved relative to those lines. A badminton field has a very predictable size.

[Tech_Dreamer]

Today Badminton , Tomorrow THE WORLD!!

 

WAKE UP PEOPLE!!

 

 

[dalekphalm]

49 minutes ago, Tech_Dreamer said:

Today Badminton , Tomorrow THE WORLD!!

 

WAKE UP PEOPLE!!

 

 

*shudders*

 

Anime terminator? My worst nightmare!

[VerticalDiscussions]

Say what again? I think the title should be edited...

 

[AresKrieger]

I'd be more impressed if it was winning against the reporter, but it wasn't so...

[tlink]

1 hour ago, Sauron said:

I'm going to guess it uses the field lines for reference and calculates its position based on how it moved relative to those lines. A badminton field has a very predictable size.

i don't think so, otherwise that would be a very royal usage of "very advanced".

[dalekphalm]

1 minute ago, tlink said:

i don't think so, otherwise that would be a very royal usage of "very advanced".

It can still be very advanced, but rely on basic concepts.

 

The imager and processor inside the unit could be incredibly advanced, doing spatial calculations, to the mm accuracy, using the court lines as a guide.

 

That would still be "very advanced".

[Sauron]

1 minute ago, tlink said:

i don't think so, otherwise that would be a very royal usage of "very advanced".

It's not as trivial as it sounds, making a system like that that has millimetric precision and takes the bot's direction into account is probably very challenging and requires very precise sensors.

[tlink]

23 minutes ago, Sauron said:

It's not as trivial as it sounds, making a system like that that has millimetric precision and takes the bot's direction into account is probably very challenging and requires very precise sensors.

yes but the main point of my question was meant towards the advanced techniques, not the general concept.

[Aytex]

Is it just me that it is weird the asian man is speaking in a english accent (merican here)

[dalekphalm]

14 minutes ago, Aytex said:

Is it just me that it is weird the asian man is speaking in a english accent (merican here)

How is that weird? He was probably educated in the UK or one of their overseas territories or something.

 

Is it weird because you think he should either have an American Accent or an Asian Accent? Perhaps he grew up in Hong Kong, which used to be part of the British Empire.

[ThinkWithPortals]

23 minutes ago, Aytex said:

Is it just me that it is weird the asian man is speaking in a english accent (merican here)

No, not at all. Would it be weird if you went into your town and met a Chinese woman with an American accent? All it means is that the family hails from elsewhere while the speaker was educated in the country.

[Aytex]

12 minutes ago, dalekphalm said:

 

 

4 minutes ago, ThinkWithPortals said:

 

well me living in a place where Its not every day thing where someone comes speaking with a different accent so I just thought it was weird....

 

_{(Didn't mean to offend anyone jeez)}

[dalekphalm]

24 minutes ago, Aytex said:

 

well me living in a place where Its not every day thing where someone comes speaking with a different accent so I just thought it was weird....

 

_{(Didn't mean to offend anyone jeez)}

I don't think anyone is offended. It's just really not that weird lol.

[ThinkWithPortals]

45 minutes ago, Aytex said:

_{(Didn't mean to offend anyone jeez)}

Lol, I wasn't offended

[Vode]

2 hours ago, Aytex said:

Is it just me that it is weird the asian man is speaking in a english accent (merican here)

Yeah man not that uncommon. I'm native german speaker but I sound like a Redneck cause I got relatives in Texas and played a lot of online shooters in my teenage years. lol

 

Nobody is offended (God I hate that word, offended people offend me) haha

[JAKEBAB]

20 hours ago, Aytex said:

Is it just me that it is weird the asian man is speaking in a english accent (merican here)

Thought the same thing! I've seen them with American and Australian accents but never British, it was a very odd feeling kinda felt like it was someone speaking for him idk.

 

Anyways I'm sure i'm missing something here i don't really understand what this will ever be used for, taking the human element out of sport kinda defeats the purpose doesn't it?

 

Edit: now that i think about it more i guess it could be used for training pros once its better?

[Misanthrope]

I was kind of expecting a robot with the image of China the wrestler to do the challenge, I'd be way more interesting.

[dalekphalm]

3 hours ago, JAKEBAB said:

Thought the same thing! I've seen them with American and Australian accents but never British, it was a very odd feeling kinda felt like it was someone speaking for him idk.

 

Anyways I'm sure i'm missing something here i don't really understand what this will ever be used for, taking the human element out of sport kinda defeats the purpose doesn't it?

 

Edit: now that i think about it more i guess it could be used for training pros once its better?

For this specific robot, the most likely commercial application is training bots. Yeah, you can get a machine that spits out birdies at you, so you can train your return hits... But this will actually hit back! You could realistically play training matches with this robot.

 

The other commercial applications aren't in this robot itself - it's in the software, and the sensors, that could be applied to literally anything that requires precise movement and location control. The possibilities are near endless in this regard.