Robotics
High Speed Robot Hands Easily Outpace Humans
This is easily one of the most impressive robotics videos that I've ever seen, and that's saying something
30 Jul 2009
Those baseball playing robots we watched in action on Monday utilize 1000 FPS cameras and high speed motors to duplicate (and improve upon) what humans can do. But the system is capable of much more than just baseball… This video showcases just some of the talents of these robots, and it’s clearly way beyond what we’re capable of in both speed and precision.
Evan Ackerman is a senior editor at IEEE Spectrum. Since 2007, he has written over 6,000 articles on robotics and technology. He has a degree in Martian geology and is excellent at playing bagpipes.