The End IS Near - Video System Tracks Puck to Beat You at Air Hockey

An upgraded robot developed by General Electric Fanuc and Nuvation Research can beat most human air hockey players, its developers claim.





A video system that tracks the puck's position sends coordinates to a special PC board every 10 milliseconds. So far, the robot has defeated every human opponent when running in 32-bit mode, averaging three times as many goals as human players. The algorithm's success resulted from revising its strategy whenever a goal was scored against it.

So the bot revises its strategy but we humans don’t … what does this tell us???

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