Robot Plays Table Tennis - Neatorama

Industrial mechanic Ulf Hoffmann built the robot called UHTTR-1, which plays table tennis with the aid of its own camera. It doesn’t miss a shot, it's just not as aggressive as some players I’ve seen -yet. But what a great practice partner! Learn more about it at Hoffmann’s blog, if you can read German, or you might prefer the Google translation. He mentions that his son added text and music to the video so "it is not so boring." I found the tennis anything but boring! -via Laughing Squid

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Star Wars fans?
I'd rather say Blade Runner fans...

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Agree @ Creamy. But I also think half the light tube should be blacked out or reflective, I cant imagine what it'd do to your night vision to have a glowing stick a foot from your face.

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The rain would evaporate on contact with the beam itself, depending on the lightsaber and how hard it's raining it could short out if water leaks into the hilt.

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I also immediately thought of Blade Runner.

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They've had the Blade Runner ones available on ThinkGeek for awhile.

These look more like "genuine" light sabre unbrellas due to the handle.

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Would be definitely something cool to have on a rainy night.

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Wow...glory be to the Queue, let everyone post news that's been around for years.

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