== A Robotic Ballcatcher (Work during Udo Frese's time at the DLR) ==
  	
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 Robo``Cup. 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 DLR 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:

[[ attachment:BallcatcherVideo.mpg | {{attachment:BallcatcherVideoSnapshot.jpg}} ]]



More detailed information is found in our [[http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/agbkb/publikationen/bibsearch/detail_e.htm?pk_int=1359|IROS 2001 paper]].