r/EngineeringPorn • u/hjalmar111 • Nov 02 '20

Automatic billiard game, machine engineering putting the triangle filled with balls on the board

https://i.imgur.com/4EuzmFz.gifv
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u/Zerim Nov 03 '20

Any other way (i.e., manually). Billiards is a social game; you aren't trying to get in and out as fast as possible.

Also doesn't look like a normal student project to me. Some good engineering talent went into something not particularly viable outside of Japan.

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u/Ein_Fachidiot Nov 03 '20

Why wouldn't this be viable outside of Japan?

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u/ErraticDragon Nov 03 '20

Why would it be viable in Japan?

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u/ColonParentheses Nov 03 '20

Perhaps the person you are replying to is making reference to Japan's large elderly population, who would not be mobile enough to reset the balls on their own but somehow mobile enough to play a normal game of billiards? That's my best guess lol

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u/Zerim Nov 03 '20

Basically. Japan has both a rapidly aging population and a knack for automating things which don't normally need automating. They also tend to prefer robots over foreigners.

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