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Sorry, Humans! Air Hockey Robots Aren't Programmed to LoseUpdated: 23 hours 49 minutes ago
AOL News (Nov. 17) -- A Japanese scientist has made the next big innovation in robot air hockey by putting the paddle to the metal.
Kunikatsu Takase, a professor at the Japanese University of Electronic Communication, has just created a robot that can play air hockey against humans and win its games 70 percent of the time.
According to Dailymotion, the key is an artificial eye that is mounted in the ceiling and analyzes the direction of the puck as it moves across the field of vision.
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"Speed is important," Takase said. "The robot cannot be too strong. The difficultly of development was in making the robot so it can amuse people."
Robot air hockey players have been around since 2006, but previous models were more vertical, presumably so humans could have more of a connection with them.
No word on when Takase's air hockey robot will show up at your local Dave & Buster's, but if he builds on the advancements made in this field by others such as the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, the robot will either play humans on its own or be controlled by others via a handheld device such as an Xbox 360 controller.
Building a robot that can play air hockey may seem like child's play to some, but not to robotics experts such as Carnegie Mellon professor Manuela Veloso, president-elect of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and also leads the school's robot soccer team.
"Games like air hockey and soccer are an excuse to study the problem of getting robots to act autonomously," she told AOL News. "That requires three steps: perception -- how the robot assesses the puck; decision-making -- what the robot should do in a limited time; and actuate -- sending the control to the motors."
Veloso says building robots that play games has another benefit: PR.
"It does engage spectators and exposes them to the technology," she said. "For instance, we've had 100,000 people attend a robot soccer game in Japan.
"However, you still have to educate people about what robots can and can't do."
Michael "Ricochet" Rosen
Commissioner - Major League Air Hockey
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I officially challenge Kunikatsu Takase's Air Hockey Robot of the Japanese University of Electronic Communication to an Official Challenge / Match; with rules approximating official rules as close as possible.
Michael "Ricochet" Rosen;
who scored on his first shot vs. Nuvation's AirHockeyBot1000 in California and beat it in a game 7-4 at the Carnegie Hall of Science in Pittsburgh, PA.
Michael "Ricochet" Rosen
Commissioner - Major League Air Hockey
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