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Baseball robot

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A baseball batting robot is a robot that can hit a pitched ball, like a human baseball player would.

Several engineers have independently attempted to build one.

  • Frank Barnes alias Robocross has built a robot called The Headless Batter which can hit balls pitched at high speeds by a baseball pitching machine.[1] This semi-android robot performs the same actions - hips swivel, the shoulders drop and the arms extend - as a human batter.
  • Hiroshima University associate professor Idaku Ishii has developed a robot able to hit a pitch coming at speeds up to 300 kilometers per hour (186 mph), about double human pitching speed.[2]
  • Researchers Masatoshi Ishikawa and colleagues at Tokyo University have developed a baseball batting robot that works for balls thrown to it at slower speeds, but with much greater accuracy. It can bat the balls into a basket at a desired location.[3]

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References

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  1. ^ "Baseball-playing Robot Refuses to be Walked". absolut.gizmodo.com. Archived from the original on 11 July 2011. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  2. ^ "Japanese baseball robot can hit a 300km/H pitch, whut?".
  3. ^ "New Scientist | Science news and science articles from New Scientist".