Feature: Students Build Foosball Table That Plays Itself

For an autonomous foosball table, four engineering students from Georgia Tech bring you this offering. This remarkable creation took just $500 to build, consisting of servo-controlled paddles, a webcam, and an 800MHz PC. Want a real challenge? The software simultaneously tracks itself and human opponents, forecasting the ball’s trajectory. Video after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.

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