This robotic plate can "catch" and balance a ball

There is something beautiful about the seeming imprecision of this and the basketball backboard. The surface seems to have more momentum and the linkages more flex than the servos can control perfectly. It feels organic in a way that expensive robotic arms with millimeter precision can’t mimic.

Would be very cool to see one of these contraptions used to deflect tear gas canisters back at the launcher in a protest. Rubber bullets even better.