Researchers at the University of Paderborn in Germany have succeeded in developing a robot that plays golf with great precision, but at short distances from the game, using the Microsoft ‘Kinect’ camera and other digital add-ons.
Kinect is a remote control unit dedicated to the popular “Xbox” gaming device, developed by Microsoft, and researchers have relied on it to increase the precision of the robot’s aiming at the hole to drop the golf ball.
According to the American site Engaget, the robot called Golfi also uses a digital neural network to learn how to direct the shot and how difficult it is to hit the ball to get it into the hole from anywhere on the green.
The robot takes a three-dimensional shot of the color green with the Microsoft Kentket camera and mimics thousands of random shots taken from different places, as it takes into account factors such as the rolling resistance of the grass, the weight of the ball and the speed of the initiation. to finally make the right decision to skillfully hit the ball.
