Watch This Baseball-Playing Robot Learn To Hit Every Pitch

Give this guy a baseball contract, stat. brightcove.createExperiences(); There've been a few attempts recently to build robots that function sort of like the human brain: artificial intelligences that "learn" from their mistakes. It's a fascinating idea, and we could eventually use what we learn from the robots to better understand our own brains. But! Can these robots play baseball with an oversized fan-thing? Yes, they certainly can, thanks to a team of Japanese scientists that created this ro...