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A Robotic Ballcatcher
Apart from the above mentioned more serious and application oriented studies, I am ultimately fascinated by the idea of robots taking part in sport activities. The probably most well known example is the robot soccer competition RoboCup. Personally during my time at the German Aerospace Center I was involved in a different ball game.
At the Hannover Fair (2000, 2002) we showed a demonstration where the newly developed lightweight arm and the new DLR hand caught a ball thrown by someone at the robot. Click on the images below to see a video from our lab experiments:
More detailed information is found in our IROS 2001 paper.
Author: Dr. Udo Frese
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