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IFling: UCSD's Latest Ball-Flinging Robot Is 100% More Flingy

• leeoniya 15y ago
  2011-11-12 - Apple issues cease and desist notice to UCSD
  • jastanton 15y ago
    source?
    • Groxx 15y ago
      Joke, based on the iName.
• timmaah 15y ago
  The ball pickup is ingenious, but I'm not sure about 100% more flingy. The one shot they showed of it actually tossing the ping pong ball went straight into the ground a foot in front of the bot.
• danielharan 15y ago
  Neat. I bet some tennis players would want a scaled up model to pick up balls.
• Groxx 15y ago
  So, this is version 3? Wouldn't that make it 50% more flingy? I love the ball pick-up technique, but I'm not sold on the new throwing style. It seemed closer to spiking the ball into the ground - absolutely devastating to any small paper models of enemy combatants, but not much else.