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From: demers@odin.ucsd.edu (David E Demers)
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Subject: Re: Shooting pigeons
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Date: 27 Mar 91 19:18:58 GMT
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In article <19321@lanl.gov> varga@vxcrna writes:
>
>In  <willdye.669661816@typhoon>  willdye@typhoon.unl.edu writes:
>
>> It's been said that if anyone developed a system
>> capable of playing ping-pong (table tennis), it would be locked up 
>> and classified.
>
>Five years ago I visited the University of Tampere in Finland and saw a
>machine built to play ping-pong. They should be contacted and asked for 
>their experience.

See Russell Andersson's book, A Robot Ping-Pong Player: Experiment
in Real-Time Intelligent Control (MIT Press, 1988).  It's
not locked up and classified.  It is of course not capable of
playing at human expert level, but it DOES play robot ping-pong.

Dave


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