dv-depot.com » Germans http://www.dv-depot.com The best in Gadgets & Tech Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:14:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Dual-armed Teutonic robot plays pool, carefully learns to hustle foolish humans http://www.dv-depot.com/83835/dual-armed-teutonic-robot-plays-pool-carefully-learns-to-hustle-foolish-humans/ http://www.dv-depot.com/83835/dual-armed-teutonic-robot-plays-pool-carefully-learns-to-hustle-foolish-humans/#comments Sun, 05 Jun 2011 11:14:20 +0000 shaun http://www.dv-depot.com/83835/dual-armed-teutonic-robot-plays-pool-carefully-learns-to-hustle-foolish-humans/
Sure, we’ve created interactive pool tables and digitally assisted billiards, but isn’t it time we completely outsourced our pool-playing to brutally efficient robots? The Germans obviously think so, using this year’s International Conference on Robotics and Automation to debut a dual-armed poolbot able to make “easier” shots about 80 percent of the time. Those misses sound a bit like hustling to us, and unlike Willow Garage’s friendly PR2 robot, the German version has a suitably intimidating, industrial look. It’s also a bit of a cheat, using an overhead camera to plan its shots. For the full lowdown on this shark, check the video after the break.

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The last century saw no shortage of disputes between the French and the Germans, but in this century everything’s going to be totally cool. BMW and PSA Peugeot Citroën, the company that quite naturally owns the Peugeot and Citroën marques, have come to form a partnership focused on the creation of advanced hybrid systems. The name for this new partnership? BMW Peugeot Citroën Electrification, quite naturally. The fruit of this holy union will be better battery packs, generators, and electronics that will not only help the manufacturers that have joined together here, but will also be sold to other manufacturers who need a little help from their friends. We’ll have to wait a little while before we see any results, though: actual components aren’t expected to hit the road until 2014 at the earliest — coincidently about 100 years since things got awfully testy at Alsace-Lorraine.

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