There must be an underground race going on to see who can come up with the best ball juggling robot. The competition is stiff as today I present to you two videos of robots that have impressive juggling talents. I can't say for sure which on is better. At first glance I want to say the airborne robot, but the fact that the stationary one can juggle two balls at once, settles it at a tie in my mind. See for yourself. Which is the more impressive juggler?
In the red corner we have the Quadrotor ball juggler. Here you can see something that looks like it belongs in the movie Wall-E. Every day we are getting one step closer to a robot apocalypse. This machine can be credited to Mark Muller and Sergei Lupashin. This is not the only machine they work on as you can see at their website.
In the blue corner a robot worked on by Paul Kulchenko and Emo Todorov out of the Movement Control Lab at University of Washington. This machine successfully juggles one ball at a lower distance than the video shown above, but.... skip to 50 seconds in to see its real power. The power to juggle two balls at once.
Both of these machine run on sensors that people way smarter than me have helped build. Win or lose they are both pretty impressive, especially if you were in a robot ping pong ball juggling contest. So I ask again, which is more impressive?
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