Robot goes bowling, gets angry
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Jan 17th 2008 8:13AM
posted Jan 17th 2008 8:13AM
Everyone knows you can't take a robot bowling. After a few pitchers of beer-flavored suds, deep-fried mushrooms, and pickled eggs even the most well-mannered robot will turn ugly. Bring a vision-guided, fireball-throwing industrial robot and it's guaranteed. Hey robot, this isn't 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules. See for yourself after the break.
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all robots are angry now. wtf?
Where can i pick one of these up? I have some people i need to throw over large distances with repeatable accuracy.
Excellent, they turned a couple thousand dollars of high tech equipment into a 21th century Trebuchet... it only took 2 centuries to get that aiming right...
Why are they calling this robopult? I would think Robobuchet is more like it... but what can I expect from someone who actually does this...
Try a couple hundred thousand dollars chief.
stereotypical replies:
beach kid:
"That was AWESOME!...DUDE"
hillbilly:
"Son of a seabiscuit! Zats sum fine caravan you boys fram Jawjuh be messin with. its gonna be hod to fix...NAW"
Stereotypical Brit says:
"I say, that was quite the site! Come here sister, let us become royalty!"
I'm obviously not stereotypical enough as I hv difficulty understanding that and I am British! LOL
The company ABB sells them http://www.abb.ca/product/us/9AAC100735.aspx?country=CA I used to operate 2 similar model like in the video.
I love how they could afford everything else, but were too poor to have their own video camera and 'rented' one (bought and returned) from Fry's. Idiots.
Hmmm. Maybe if I skip the Mac Book Air I can get one of these.
Nahh; not thin enough.
Wow. I expected the bowling balls to knock gaping holes in the RV. I guess medieval weapons are no match for consumer overindulgence.
Dear Engadget,
You just took top honors in my respect category for quoting Lebowski.
Bryan.
"....FireBall!!!" - Joey, from Friends
I can think of no finer way to use a robot. Kudos!
They probably don't clean up their mess afterwards, do they?
I have one question: Why?
Why not?
Will it blend?
OMFG
UFO at 2:57
:P
just camera glare
This would work so much better than my USB missile launcher.
can we make a USB version plz?
What a waste of beer... =)
that wasn't beer, it was beer flavored suds
4 minutes and 8 seconds of my life that I will never get back. Thanks.
And yet you waste another 30 seconds replying (which you'll never get back).
And another 30 seconds coming back to see what was replied.
That was completely stupid--but I still enjoyed the video. It must be the XY chromosome combo.
I think i had a mini version of this as a kid
Okay, that's now officially the dumbest thing I've ever seen off YouTube.
Also the funniest.
I saw somewhere one of these shows where they take two competing groups of engineers, give them a random task(build a slingshot type catapault) and then test both to see who'se better. I think they have them get the parts from a junkyard and build it in a few days. In said episode, they went well beyond a hundred feet(It wasn't a bowling ball, but it must have waid more than 20kg).
I think all the money and stuff is for the accuracy, which is pretty cool, and all, but with a anchored base, and maybe a shorter rope, and slightly longer wait till the release we could really get some distance!
P.S.
So now you can't have anything bowling related without a Big Lebowski reference? Is that the kind of world we live in?! ...I surely hope so.
Awww, youtube?? Lame.
(It's blocked at my work..)