[mod.ai] Robotic Snooker

tc%vax-d.rutherford.ac.uk@CS.UCL.AC.UK (Tony Conway) (11/10/86)

In article <861020-061334-1337@Xerox> MJackson.Wbst@XEROX.COM writes:
>
>Over the weekend I caught part of a brief report on this on Cable News
>Headlines.  They showed a large robot arm making a number of impressive
>shots, and indicated that the software did shot selection as well.
>Apparently this work was done somewhere in Great Britain.  Can someone
>provide more detail?
>
>Mark


Think that work was probably project by Richard Gregory (Brain & Perception
Laboratory, Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, England) 
in conjunction with people in School of Engineering, Information Technology
Research Centre, University of Bristol.
Not sure if it has been written up anywhere yet.

Richard Gregory is also active in starting up an interactive science
centre (Bristol Exploratory): loosely based on the San Francisco
Exploratorium.

Cheers - 'Tony Conway ( @ucl-cs.arpa:tc@vd.rl.ac.uk )
         Informatics, SERC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory,
         Chilton, Didcot, Oxon. OX11 0QX, England.