• Empire Robotics has adapted its Versaball to pick up ping pong balls and fire them into red cups with great precision, making it perfect for Beer Pong.
• On 6 January 2015, Empire Robotics in conjunction with BPONG.COM (the leading organisation for professional beer pong and organisers of The World Series of Beer Pong) will hold a competition between Versaball and the newly crowned winners of BPONG’s The World Series of Beer Pong.
• The Versaball is a precision handling effector, which can be used to handle a variety of objects without requiring retooling or programming
• Beer pong is a drinking game where people throw ping pong balls into red cups. Broadly, you must drink a cup of beer if you’re opponent sinks a ball into the cup.
• Stay tuned for the man vs machine showdown!
• In the meantime, check out the video below

Read/watch more:

http://betanews.com/2015/01/02/meet-the-versaball-beer-pong-robot-are-human-players-now-obsolete/

http://www.gizmag.com/versaball-robot-pong/35418/

http://boingboing.net/2015/01/02/soft-robot-plays-beer-pong.html

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