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From: KENDER@CS.COLUMBIA.EDU (John R. Kender)
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Subject: Ping-pong playing robot
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Date: 17 Jan 88 01:39:44 GMT
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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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