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. This semi-
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robot performs the same actions - hips swivel, the shoulders drop and the arms extend - as a human batter.
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Hiroshima University
is a Japanese national university located in Higashihiroshima and Hiroshima, Japan. Established in 1929, it was chartered as a university in 1949 following the merge of a number of national educational institutions.
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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.
*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.
See also
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Robot soccer
A robot is a machine—especially one Computer program, programmable by a computer—capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically. A robot can be guided by an external control device, or the robot control, control may be ...
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Japanese robotics In Japan, popular robots include humanoid entertainment robots, androids, animal robots, social robots, guard robots, and many more. Each type has a variety of characteristics.
Canada employs over a quarter of a million industrial robot workers. In ...
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Baseball
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