A Japanese professor has developed a robotic air hockey player, which uses a camera to track the puck's motion and calculate its trajectory and deliver a mean counter-attack. One has to wonder what would possess someone to construct a robotic air hockey player, but the project is a good test in machine vision and developing faster reaction times for unexpected events.
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