{"id":2015,"date":"2014-03-13T11:54:51","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T10:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2014-03-13T11:54:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T10:54:51","slug":"robot-table-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/archives\/2015","title":{"rendered":"Robot Table Tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robots playing table tennis is obviously a hot topic of research at the moment. I thought we were going to have an IBM Deep Blue\/Watson moment when I saw the trailer for a match between Timo Boll and high precision manufacturing robot.<\/p>\n<p>\nI was utterly disappointed by the final result. I was expecting an event (though obviously sponsored by the robot company) where Boll actually played against a robot, and the cool trailer was just promo for that event. It turns out the trailer was just a few clips from the final video, the video being a pretty lame and derivative advert.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tIIJME8-au8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is a long way from the reality of robot table tennis:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/imVNg9j7rvU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t_qN3dgYGqE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><p>\nAnd even further away from the reality of human table tennis:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aBBwdZMOfUc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robots playing table tennis is obviously a hot topic of research at the moment. I thought we were going to have an IBM Deep Blue\/Watson moment when I saw the trailer for a match between Timo Boll and high precision &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/archives\/2015\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2016,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions\/2016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}