Basketball Team Train with Robots
Wed May 18, 2011 10:36 am
Thought this was a cool article, decided to share 
"To the list of French accomplishments you may now add "robot basketball training" -- at least if the video above is to be believed. But you probably shouldn't believe it when members of Poitiers Basket 86 testify that amusement park rides improved the team's "spatial orientation" and helped them defeat top-ranked Chalon. It'd be different if the "robots" were teaching them perfect free-throw or helping them walk, obviously, but PB86 is known for its innovative advertising, and this seems like a quirky example. Hit the video above to see the pranksters at work, but know that, as with Sartre and Camus, something gets lost in translation."
Source: EnGadget
"To the list of French accomplishments you may now add "robot basketball training" -- at least if the video above is to be believed. But you probably shouldn't believe it when members of Poitiers Basket 86 testify that amusement park rides improved the team's "spatial orientation" and helped them defeat top-ranked Chalon. It'd be different if the "robots" were teaching them perfect free-throw or helping them walk, obviously, but PB86 is known for its innovative advertising, and this seems like a quirky example. Hit the video above to see the pranksters at work, but know that, as with Sartre and Camus, something gets lost in translation."
Source: EnGadget
Re: Basketball Team Train with Robots
Wed May 18, 2011 10:42 am
The Globetrotters did it first:
Re: Basketball Team Train with Robots
Wed May 18, 2011 2:50 pm
Andrew cover up! You're showing your age 
Re: Basketball Team Train with Robots
Wed May 18, 2011 5:37 pm
That was well before Andrew's time. 
Andrew, before I opened the thread, I was wondering which way you were going to go with the basketball/robots theme.
Thought it might have been Bender in his home-made Globetrotter uniform. But your way was better.
Andrew, before I opened the thread, I was wondering which way you were going to go with the basketball/robots theme.
Thought it might have been Bender in his home-made Globetrotter uniform. But your way was better.
Re: Basketball Team Train with Robots
Wed May 18, 2011 11:09 pm
iPrototype wrote:Andrew cover up! You're showing your age
I'm 26, it actually came out three years before I was born. However, these things tend to get repeated as the years go by and my cousin and I happened to catch it one fateful school holidays, circa 1997.
Dan's Brain wrote:Andrew, before I opened the thread, I was wondering which way you were going to go with the basketball/robots theme.
Thought it might have been Bender in his home-made Globetrotter uniform. But your way was better.
I probably should've gone with Futurama but it's difficult to beat the corniness of that old made-for-TV movie.
Re: Basketball Team Train with Robots
Thu May 19, 2011 3:04 am
iPrototype wrote:Andrew cover up! You're showing your age
Some people aren't familiar with reruns.
Re: Basketball Team Train with Robots
Thu May 19, 2011 3:45 am
Andrew wrote:I'm 26, it actually came out three years before I was born. However, these things tend to get repeated as the years go by and my cousin and I happened to catch it one fateful school holidays, circa 1997.
Right. Uh huh.
Re: Basketball Team Train with Robots
Sat May 21, 2011 8:49 am
shadowgrin wrote:iPrototype wrote:Andrew cover up! You're showing your age
Some people aren't familiar with reruns.
What are Re-Runs? I'm used to streaming my episodes