Agreed, but still a lot going on there.
But, note the terrible job (as compared to humans) these good boits do; even a 4 year old could carry the ball to the shooter with virtually no training. My dog could do it with a bit of training.
And we’re gonna have self-driving cars any time soon?
Amusing robot-related anecdote: back in college some 20… 30… 35ish years ago, my group tried to get an industrial robot (an American, I think) to catch a ball. Vision system watches ball with 2 cameras, calculates when to place “glove” (small round net for our testing), sends info to robot which dos the needful.
It worked, in a sense, and we got an excellent grade. But it was far too slow. Toss ball, ball hits floor, count to 2, sometimes 3, and robot would put the glove in a very likely good position. Probably easy to do now.
