Japanese engineers have taught the robot to juggle

Chiba University of Japan and its development are fairly well known - for example, one of the robots created by the specialists of this university showed itself well in the aftermath of the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. The new development of Chiba engineers is no less interesting, although not as practical.

The fact is that the development team created a robot capable of juggling balls. Currently, the robot is able to control two balls at the same time, and this process looks quite interesting. Probably, the engineers are planning to increase the number of balls that the robot can handle. But now all this is quite impressive.
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The system does not work perfectly - so far the “juggler” can unmistakably perform five cycles of throwing balls before one of them falls.

The robot is able to throw balls up to a height of 2 meters, while the trajectory of each of the balls is tracked using a camera that receives an image at a frequency of 500 frames per second. Below I propose to evaluate a video with a demonstration of the work of this mechanical juggler.



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