July 11, 2001
High-tech baseball pitching machine
High-tech baseball pitching machine
Two mechanical engineers have gotten together and created what may be the perfect pitching machine. Using an eight-axis industrial robot, it has the ability to throw practically any pitch within the strike zone. Custom-built software enables you to choose the type of pitch by pointing at a touch-screen, setting the speed, location, handedness, as well as fastball, curveball, slider, ... There's also a database of 2500 preset pitches in a database.
Posted by rshah at July 11, 2001 12:00 PM