File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_2002/avant-garde.0209, message 27


Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 07:31:00 -0800
From: { brad brace } <bbrace-AT-wiredmag.com>
Subject: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: "the art advances and the artisan recedes"


At 5:40 PM -0400 9/4/2, John Klima wrote:
>seems to me that the ability to produce a beautiful object on demand is
>very much being in control of what you do.
>


Robot golfers unveiled


An engineer in Florida has designed two robots which play golf.

One finds the tee and sets up the ball for a drive while the other putts
the ball into the hole.

The second machine is named RoboWoods after the world's number one player.

RoboWoods is the size of a shoebox and uses infrared sensors to locate the
ball and the hole - it then knocks the ball in with a shortened putter.

Its range isn't good enough for a competitive game and the sport's
authorities are expected to rule it illegal but its inventor, Kahlil Khan,
says it could be used to test putters.

There may be more of a market for his Li'l Golfing Buddy which scoots
around on rubber wheels, hunting for the tee with infrared sensors. It then
balances a ball on top before backing off.

Khan, a University of Florida student, said: "If you could buy a $500
putter, why not buy a $500 robot that putts the ball?"







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