[comp.ai.digest] Ping-pong playing robot

KENDER@CS.COLUMBIA.EDU (John R. Kender) (01/17/88)

The robot is the creation of Russ Anderson at AT&T Bell Labs at Holmdel, NJ.
He has a brief video tape showing it in action.  Notable are its use
of a custom VLSI chip for calculating momemts of blobs in binary images,
custom modification of a PUMA arm, and the real-time handling of the
blurred ellipsoidal imagery that the ball presents to standard automation
cameras.  Some years ago there was talk about a robot ping-pong match,
but I am unaware of any opponent for it.
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