Japanese baseball-playing robots with perfection unrivaled
Yes, I told you, robots are the fastest evolvers. We saw the soccer-playing robotic duo yesterday, and today we have two baseball-playing robots to complement the score of awesomeness. Developed by University of Tokyo professor Masatoshi Ishikawa and his team, the baseball-playing robotic duo comprises a pitcher and a hitter.
The pitcher robot consists of high-speed, three-fingered hand mounted on a mechanical arm, which very precisely throws a plastic foam ball at about 25 miles per hour with about 90% hits in the strike zone. The batting bot is an intelligent figurine in itself, which with built-in sensors can distinguish between a strike and a ball, and hit the ball pitched in the strike zone with 100% percent accuracy.
With baseball players with such magnetism and mechanical proves, yes the bullpen and fee hikes will be done with, but MLB will go without pay-per-view games, and no packed crowds. Truly so, who wants to see a bot chucking each ball as a strike and the batter hitting all for home runs. The batter will take over Barry Bonds' home run record in only one MLB season, freaking!
