air hockey humanoid robot

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The guy on the right gave a talk about the bot (Sarcos humanoid) he had worked on while in Japan about four years ago in a class I was in at CMU.

http://www.break.com/index/robot_playing_air_hockey.html

"They were doing something about vision and learning, the air hockey was the toy problem.  The robot didn't have a model of its dynamics or kinematics, and had to learn them by trying over and over; it built an internal model through machine learning."

The thesis page also has more info and videos
http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-06202004-213721/