Omron’s Forpheus is a Ping-Pong-playing robot by Japanese Technology Company drew a plenty of attraction at CES. Well, almost everyone visited that place where it was demonstrating its skills. Forpheus is quite a worthy player to play against real opponent. The robot was first introduced in 2014; this is fourth generation of Forpheus. This updated version adds a companion arm that can serve up balls in the air, and better predict smashes through superior AI.
This latest Forpheus is actually an entirely new robot. While previous models tended to reuse a lot of hardware, this new one was apparently built from the ground up just to play ping pong.
Omron’s Forpheus
The Omron Forpheus uses the sensors on your bat or paddle and with five cameras to work out for the robot and opponent. It plays using a multi-axis robotic arm that can mimic human tactics such as topspin. On the other hand, you can get the feedback through voice and on a screen, which offers guidelines about posture, positioning and swing.
Coming to its arms, the Forpheus uses a robotic arm that is controlled by the AI through a 5-axis motor system to swing the paddle. While the brain tells the machine how to hit the ball, it advises the robot on timing and direction in just 1,000th of a second. The technology behind the Forpheus’ paddle grip, ball hit location, and arm positions are “all controlled to within 0.1mm.”
The cameras mounted on the left and right of that provides it to identify ping-pong balls in a 3D space. This is as identical or similar way to human visual system. The ball’s location is detected up to 80 times per second. In addition to the two side cameras, Forpheus has a third central camera which is used to evaluate the player and, based on their movements, judge their ability level.
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