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Researchers at the Jozef Stefan Institute have developed an autonomous skiing robot. It uses "a USB camera, a GPS system and the computer that processes the information from those sources to keep the robot heading in the right direction." Video after the break.

Why do we need a skiing robot anwyay? "Testing of ski equipment, or modeling of skiing for VR applications."
[via Popsci - IEEE Spectrum]

This entry was posted on 10/20/2009 10:30am and is filed under Robots, Sports .
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