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		Timo Boll vs. KUKA’s Agilus robot in 5 hours (kuka-timoboll.com)
		1 point by torvald on March 10, 2014 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 2 comments

tompollard on March 11, 2014 [–]

I'll bet they've given the robot antispin rubber. I don't see any way they could program a machine to track a ball and judge its spin accurately enough to play with a normal bat.

kraak on March 13, 2014 | [–]

every ball interaction with the robot is cgi Timo boll even plays with a cgi ball.

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