MAN vs MACHINE!!!!!!!

Pool Robot

That is some crazy sh*t!!This robot would be a great tool for learning all the little nuances and rolls of the game.A liitle kid who had access to this robot to help him improve his kicking and shot making at a young age could be a pool master very quickly.I would even say a potentional world beater.This machine could change playing the "ghost" to playing the "robot".Very cool and thanks for sharing.Rep for you.I love new technology like this.



Keith
 
RunoutJJ said:
Hey everybody. Im in a heated battle or debate on another message board about this new pool playing robot and how it is nearly unbeatable.

The video of the machine and amazing aiming points are really quite amazing but racking the balls without a TRIANGLE!!!. Tell me what you think :rolleyes:


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...ying-robot-Deep-Green-will-be-unbeatable.html
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If I remember correctly, Mike Shamos wrote about Deep Green and other pool-playing robots in a recent issue of Billiards Digest.

A few thoughts:

1. I know what I want for Christmas.
2. To repeat what stormshadow1 wrote, Augmented Reality Pool would be a great teaching tool.
3. I'd love to see Deep Green play a pro. Now *there's* some pool that could make it on prime-time network TV.
4. I'd rather play Deep Green than play the ghost.
5. I wonder if that damn thing would give me a spot. The orange crush in 9-ball, maybe? Two games on the wire in a race to five in 8-ball?

I'd be curious to see Deep Green shoot through several racks of straight pool or run a century playing snooker, assuming they could move it to a different table. I'm curious how well the physics modeling has accounted for throw, or whether it can recognize whether a table is playing long or short for kicks.

In any case, quite an accomplishment.
 
That's cool as crap but do u think they will ever be able to determine english ball speed and in such with these robots if so then they mechs will rule the world
 
I think the main hurdle, as mentioned above, will be the playing environment.

How is the machine going to compensate for nap, uneven tables, dead rails, etc.

There are plenty of variables that I would love to hear an answer for.

Shooting a ball directly into the heart of the pocket is easy for the robot and would work on any table, no matter how tight you made the pockets. The running a ball down the rail would be a difficult one to move to the snooker table.
 
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