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From: pv@tut.fi (Vuorimaa Petri Kalevi)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,misc.misc
Subject: Re: query: table-tennis-playing robot?
Message-ID: <2379@korppi.tut.fi>
Date: 17 Jan 88 09:27:36 GMT
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Organization: Tampere University of Technology, Finland
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My mail bounced back, so here we go!

To: hucka@caen.engin.umich.edu
Subject: Re: query: table-tennis-playing robot?

hucka@caen.engin.umich.edu (Michael Hucka):
> 
> Within the last half-year I read an article which described a successful
> robotic device capable of playing table-tennis.  Unfortunately I can't
> remember where I came across it.  Has anyone else read about this or know
> where I can get more information about it?  I am interested in learning
> about the research and technical issues the system's creators had to address.
> 

You can find a short description about that particular robot from the
byte-magazine (July 1987, page 37). Here in Europa we have more robots
(about 5). Our robots (Finland, England, Belgium and Switzerland) are
not as good as that one, but they are much smaller. 
So, we can and have arranged competitions between them!

If want more information about European ping-pong-robots, mail me!
-- 
Petri Vuorimaa	   Tampere University of Technology / Computer Systems Lab
pv@tut.FI          PO. BOX. 527, 33101 Tampere, Finland