Right you golf lovers you will like this one. You know Rory Mcilroy? Golf extraordinaire! But he can't keep up...with Jeff, a machine.

Here is a clip of Rory and Jeff dishing it out. And by the way Jeff has a sense of humour to top it all of.

( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2fLuz9mF0 if the video doesn't show )

Jeff is no normal piece of steel with a few motors that whacks a ball. Golf Laboratories don't give out a lot of information, but they state that Jeff can swing from 0.1mph ( 0.16 kmh ) for putters, and up to 120mph ( 193kmh ) for drivers, with extreme precision. You can fiddle around with the friendly user interface and adjust literally everything. With a repeatability of 0.00002", to put that is perspective human hair is about 0.003" thick. So if you stack pennies as high as 4 empire state buildings on top of another, and you put twenty pennies next to that, that is the same as 0.00002" accurate.

Here is a pic of the grip mechanism:

This helps Jeff to incorporate the double pendulum effect, to mimic the upper and lower arms during the swing.

Preparing to swing:

Jeff mentions he uses GPS, but I personally thinks he uses GPS only for a rough estimation. Looks like the operator adjust the swing to hit the targets, imagine if you added a LiDAR system, and put it on a golf course next to the big boys in golf. Watch out Tiger Woods! Jeff is aiming for your lunch money!

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Till next time

This is my very first blog so let's go.

This blog will be about my love for Robots, big, small the good and the downright creepy.

The first on my list I want to share with everyone is Rollin' Justin.

All the way from Germany's DLR ( Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. ) The German Aerospace Centre. 

This dexterous robot makes catching look easy, it can even catch two balls at the same time. The humanoid robot uses 51 servomotors and can move at a speed of 6 km/h ( 3,7 mph )

Here is the official web page.  http://www.dlr.de/rm/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-5471/

A couple of youtube clips of Justin showing off:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93WHRSKg3gE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ylzT3x0ruo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDKXT1ZhEgA

I am not going bore you with all the technical details but if your into the nitty-gritty stuff and have to know how it works check out their site they have a lot of info.

That's all from me, check out next week when I will talk about another Robot. And remember Robots are the future, don't fear them. They are here to serve us.