Watch This Awesome Robot Play Catch Better Than Your Dad

Disney researchers invented a humanoid animatron that plays a lifelike game of catch. Fancy a round of catch? This Disney robot plays an eerily humanlike game. In a combination of engineering and sorcery, researchers created a robot that follows the ball in the air with its eyes, catches the ball in its hands, and reacts when it misses a catch. Also, it juggles. They used an external camera system to track the balls and an algorithm to predict where and when the ball would fall. When the robot m...