[Tyler]

UC Berkeley Team Has Quadrotor Catching Balls
18 September 2011, 2:58 pm

A team from the UC Berkeley Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS) has released a video showing a quadrotor catching balls.  The video also details some of the incremental improvements made in the hardware of the quadrotor and the software controlling it.  (via Automaton)

Source: robots.net

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[Art]

Excellent example of predictive behavior!

[Bragi]

yep, those things are still very cool

[Freddy]

Yes this is my favourite robot at the moment, looking forward to seeing what else it could do - one of the comments mentioned table tennis, that would be interesting.  Still trying to think of a practical use, but still impressed.

[Bragi]

Maybe they can use them as ping-pong-ball catchers, during ping-pong games 
seriously though, it's nice hand-eye coordination, sort of...

[Art]

Very cool ideas you guys... Table Tennis Robot competitions!!

That would be practical wouldn't it Freddy? heh!!

[Freddy]

It's practical enough for me