The Robot For Basketball
Mashable has revealed how Toyota the popular automobile industry assisted a Japanese basket fall team in Avark Tokyo to produce a special robot known to have an accurate resemblance to the popular basketball player Michael Jordan.
The robot was unveiled a few hours ago through the mashable’s video coverage during the robot experimentation.
According to the reporter, it is a robot that was able to accurately make free throws during the basketball-playing game.
Though made for entertainment to the players in Avark Tokyo, the robot also acts as a reminder to the basketball fans of the popular icon of the game known as Michael Jordan.
Though the robot cannot completely compete with the humans playing the basketball game, the robot can be able to make accurate throws to the targeted player while in its stationary position. Such may add color to the game since robots and humans can now play basketball together.
The idea of using the robot beyond throwing off the handball may involve serious programming and design but it is actually possible through the firm’s sponsorship which is to help the team build such a robot, its advancement to such a level wouldn’t be a difficult issue.
It is a humanoid resembling a particular individually bearing the skin color, eye color, shape, and statue of Michael Jordan.
There had been several attempts to make robots for the purpose of sports, the evidence can be shown through the series of robot models released in the past for simple exercises.
The simple exercises are jogging, running, riding bikes, driving, and now playing basketball it is believed that in the future robots humanoid robots that can play football and table tennis may become available.
The predictions made for the functions of robots in the future starting from the year 2020 showed that robots of that period could drive, teach, do exercise and possibly play physical games in the form of sport with human control but based on AI in their memory.
Toyota just made the Michael Jordan of robots pic.twitter.com/cukbmng5lq
— Mashable (@mashable) June 25, 2018
