Robot Compete Human Playing Biliard

With the help of cameras mounted on the table, the player biliard trying to read the situation. He was looking for a proper shooting angle to do a 'shot'. Interestingly, the player who was shot this goal is a robot!

Tangible as a robot hand, the author is designed to expertly play biliard. This robot is a project undertaken Thomas Nierhoff of the Institute of Automatic Control Engineering at the Technische Universität Munich, Germany, along with two colleagues Omiros Kourakos and Sandra Hirche.

Problem ability, do not underestimate. As reported by Engadget and quoted on Wednesday (8/6/2011), the robot hand can enter up to five balls in a row, with success rate to 80 percent.

Nierhoff and his team continue to develop the robot hand is to increase its capabilities, particularly in the function of the camera is placed on the table. The ability of the camera is connected with this robot will greatly help the robot make accurate shots.