IFling: UCSD's Latest Ball-Flinging Robot Is 100% More Flingy

The ball pickup is ingenious, but I'm not sure about 100% more flingy. The one shot they showed of it actually tossing the ping pong ball went straight into the ground a foot in front of the bot.

So, this is version 3? Wouldn't that make it 50% more flingy?

I love the ball pick-up technique, but I'm not sold on the new throwing style. It seemed closer to spiking the ball into the ground - absolutely devastating to any small paper models of enemy combatants, but not much else.

Neat. I bet some tennis players would want a scaled up model to pick up balls.

2011-11-12 - Apple issues cease and desist notice to UCSD

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Joke, based on the iName.