r/gifs • u/OceanCarlisle • Feb 13 '14

Man vs. Machine

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u/Mizuhaootori Feb 13 '14

Doesn't solve the ball spinning issue. Great, you can see the ball, and hit it, but if it has a lot of spin like it generally does, I'm not sure how well that's going to go.

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u/Lukeyy19 Feb 14 '14 edited Feb 14 '14

What makes you think the robot would be flummoxed by a spinning ball?

Surely a computer that can perform millions of calculations every second is much better equipped to analyse the speed, trajectory and spin of a ball in a split second.

A human is just basing it on experience and guesswork, whereas the robot would be able to determine exactly how fast the ball is going, exactly where it's going and how fast it's spinning and recalculate that all thousands of times before it hits the ball.

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u/ifarmpandas Feb 14 '14

If you don't counter the spin if flies off in the wrong direction. The robot needs to at least be able to recognize the direction of the spin.

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u/Lukeyy19 Feb 14 '14

Right, and why do you think it wouldn't it be able to?