http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/ Engadget Comments for GEF robot stomps even the most prolific air hockey players http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/Jul 11th 2008 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/Jul 11th 2008 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIk4ZLVGIC8
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Another Video showing the robot in action but against a human player.]]>Jul 12th 2008 12:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/]]>Jul 11th 2008 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/Jul 11th 2008 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/
I for one w...ill continue to play human opponents.]]>Jul 11th 2008 3:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/
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guess you had to be there, heh]]>Jul 11th 2008 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/Jul 11th 2008 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/Jul 11th 2008 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/Jul 11th 2008 3:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/
I mean, geeze, here I was thinking this robot thing managed to take down professional air hockey players or something.]]>Jul 12th 2008 11:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUt4sO3yBBU]]>Jul 11th 2008 3:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/Jul 11th 2008 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/Jul 11th 2008 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/Jul 11th 2008 4:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/Jul 11th 2008 3:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/Jul 11th 2008 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/Jul 11th 2008 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/Ah the memories...
It brings me all the way
back to the days...
of Shufflepuck Cafe...]]>Jul 11th 2008 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvCOoyObixY&feature=related
it does have a weakness!]]>Jul 11th 2008 3:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/Jul 11th 2008 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/Jul 11th 2008 3:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/Jul 11th 2008 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/Jul 11th 2008 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/Jul 11th 2008 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/
Why the hell else would the story description describe how they can't beat anyone in 8-bit mode? Why have an 8-bit version?

"We could have optimized the 8-bit code, but we wanted to run the exact same program to show the difference in processors. Consequently, the robot will often miss fast-moving pucks in 8-bit mode, because of its long recalculation time."
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Why the hell else would the story description describe how they can't beat anyone in 8-bit mode? Why have an 8-bit version?

"We could have optimized the 8-bit code, but we wanted to run the exact same program to show the difference in processors. Consequently, the robot will often miss fast-moving pucks in 8-bit mode, because of its long recalculation time."]]>Jul 11th 2008 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/
"Prolific" just doesn't make any sense.]]>Jul 11th 2008 5:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/
However I'm more interested in whether the code is flexible. I'd like to know if it's been matured to the point where it can simulate an extremely defensive player, or an offensive-to-the-point-of-risky player. Or if it can simulate me. Or you. Or whomever, if the code has room for the subtleties.

Can the machine learn a player? Would it ever need to? If it could, how much more embarrassing could a loss be to the machine? Does it EXCLUSIVELY think in the now, as the code I saw on the earlier demo suggests (puck is approaching / puck is leaving), or can it consider and predict complex interactions with the sides? Does it yet know how to watch the hands of the other player? Because that would be downright evil, to know where your shot is going before it even starts...]]>Jul 11th 2008 6:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/
Best Regards ~
Michael L. Rosen (646) 489-3300 cellular
Michael L. Rosen; Commissioner ~ Major League & Recreational Air Hockey (International)
United States Air Hockey Association (USAA) President
USAA World Rankings: # 9 Doubles, # 20 Singles
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one man leaves]]>Jul 11th 2008 8:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/Jul 11th 2008 8:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/Jul 11th 2008 11:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/
I'm guessing it's using the Homer Simpson boxing strategy.]]>Jul 12th 2008 6:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/
The trick to beating it is to bounce it back and forth between the side walls. As it approaches the goal, the robot is unable to track back and forth fast enough.]]>Jul 12th 2008 10:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/gef-robot-stomps-even-the-most-prolific-air-hockey-players/Jul 23rd 2008 9:54AM