Baseball robot explained

A baseball batting robot is a robot that can hit a pitched ball, like a human baseball player would.

Several engineers have independently attempted to build one.

• Frank Barnes alias Robocross has built a robot called The Headless Batter which can hit balls pitched at high speeds by a baseball pitching machine.^[1] This semi-android robot performs the same actions - hips swivel, the shoulders drop and the arms extend - as a human batter.
• Hiroshima University associate professor Idaku Ishii has developed a robot able to hit a pitch coming at speeds up to 300 kilometers per hour (186 mph), about double human pitching speed.^[2]
• Researchers Masatoshi Ishikawa and colleagues at Tokyo University have developed a baseball batting robot that works for balls thrown to it at slower speeds, but with much greater accuracy. It can bat the balls into a basket at a desired location.^[3]

See also

• Robot soccer
• Japanese robotics

Notes and References

1. Web site: Baseball-playing Robot Refuses to be Walked . absolut.gizmodo.com . 15 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110711095547/http://absolut.gizmodo.com/gadgets/robots/baseballplaying-robot-refuses-to-be-walked-221296.php . 11 July 2011 . dead.
2. Web site: Japanese baseball robot can hit a 300km/H pitch, whut?.
3. Web site: New Scientist | Science news and science articles from New Scientist.