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And Now, Robots Playing Ping Pong

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Just because we refuse to cover European lies that "all shall be well" for the next 15 minutes.

h/t Sal Arnuk




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Tue, 10/18/2011 - 10:46 | Link to Comment Lord Welligton
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Shouldn't they be trading.

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 10:51 | Link to Comment Biggvs
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If you look close enough, I believe the ball is labeled "AAPL".

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 10:57 | Link to Comment hedgeless_horseman
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If only they could spray water on exposed reactor fuel, then that would really be something.

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 10:58 | Link to Comment GeneMarchbanks
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No don't be ridiculous. I wanna see if we can get them to do some blow, you know, before trading.

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 11:00 | Link to Comment Fukushima Sam
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If they could tunnel underground looking for escaped corium, that would be really cool.

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 12:23 | Link to Comment AldousHuxley
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after all that R&D, this is all we have?

 

 

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 13:03 | Link to Comment AnAnonymous
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after all that R&D, this is all we have?

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In this US driven world, yes.

US citizens taste telling that their politicians promise what they cant hold.

But this trait is not particuliar to US politicians but to US citizens.

How were robots sold? They were supposed to add to human labour, not withdraw from it.

They were supposed to operate in extreme environments, dangerous to human beings.

This is how robots were sold by US citizens.

And now what do we have? We have robots performing basic tasks to push aside human beings.

From the promise of coming as supplements, robots appear as coming as substitutes to human beings.

US citizens are duplicitous. It is part of their eternal nature.

US world order.

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 14:38 | Link to Comment blueRidgeBoy
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you leverage Chinese robots playing ping-pong into an anti-US rant?  You're reaching.  Now go make my iPhone.

Wed, 10/19/2011 - 08:39 | Link to Comment BigJim
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...And now what do we have? We have robots performing basic tasks to push aside human beings.

It's true - I'll never play ping-pong again.

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 12:18 | Link to Comment Bunga Bunga
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And the three people in the backround watching the ball ist the typical retail investor.

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 10:57 | Link to Comment jdelano
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couldn't help it.  Just bought a little vix.  Looks like the robots are pretty close to circuit fry meltdown.  

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 11:04 | Link to Comment eureka
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No one should be trading... REF.: "Just Because We Refuse to read US lies".

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 11:15 | Link to Comment jdelano
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If we hit 1100 or 1260, I'm done, whichever comes first.  Don't think I'm alone there.  Markets gonna be a desolate place soon.    

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 11:14 | Link to Comment Taint Boil
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What real robots look like ... of course not here in the States - Mexico.

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 12:43 | Link to Comment Schmuck Raker
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LOL

Shockingly dull video. However, if you listen very closely,

you'll find that those incredibly sophisticated robots are all controlled by "The Clapper".

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 13:48 | Link to Comment PersonalRespons...
Tue, 10/18/2011 - 11:18 | Link to Comment Sudden Debt
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these only trade after after hours.

These robots aren't humans you know, these robots deserve a break from time to time.

 

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 11:40 | Link to Comment Enceladus
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Look HFT Algos need down time too. After a long day doing the Lord's work and providing market stability and liquidity HAL and his bud SkyNet need to just chill.

In their next vid we see 'em doing coke off the mother board of an Eastern European Stuxnet infected whore.

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 12:40 | Link to Comment Ruffcut
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Another look into the future for what automation will come to government. The dronacrats and republibots will be easier to program and much more cost efficient.

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 10:46 | Link to Comment AndyMan
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Apt. Apt analysis.

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 10:47 | Link to Comment BKbroiler
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and they didn't explode in the first minute... impressive.

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 10:47 | Link to Comment fuu
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Humans are so redundant.

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 10:47 | Link to Comment Josh Randall
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This soundtrack is inspiring

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 10:54 | Link to Comment CrimsonAvenger
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I think they borrowed it from every porn movie ever made in the 70s.

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 10:59 | Link to Comment TheLooza
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not gonna lie, that hot blue robot underwear has got me thinking some thoughts. nasty ones.

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 11:12 | Link to Comment fuu
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Have you had any private time with the machines yet?

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 11:20 | Link to Comment TheLooza
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workin on it.  all you perverts won;t give us that special alone time we've been cravin'

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 10:50 | Link to Comment GeneMarchbanks
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Classic ZH. The future... bots trading AAPL, humans extinct...

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 12:22 | Link to Comment Bunga Bunga
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Humans are  not extinct, since 99% have to work 24/7 to provide the money for robot trading. This is how the future will look like in 9 months.

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 10:49 | Link to Comment Dr. Engali
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That's about two minutes and a half of my life I will never get back.

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 10:49 | Link to Comment slaughterer
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So THAT is what Robo-trader looks like!

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 10:50 | Link to Comment fuu
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<golf clap>

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 10:50 | Link to Comment Apostle of Unknown
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at the end i was like, wow was that 3 minutes?

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 11:09 | Link to Comment Alex Kintner
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Yeah, 3 minutes. And you're never gonna get it back either.

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 10:50 | Link to Comment sbenard
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I have a feeling it would be a VERY short rally if one of those robots was playing against one of China's Olympic table tennis players. It's one thing for two machines to just flip the ball back and forth with easy shots. It's another when a good technical player and strategist competes to WIN!

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 11:07 | Link to Comment gaoptimize
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The first chess programs couldn't beat a master either.  Give it 15 years, tops.

 

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 10:51 | Link to Comment tmosley
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Damn I love robots (when they aren't programmed to do illegal things).

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 10:53 | Link to Comment oogs66
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CNBS has just announced that they are launching a new website to deal once and for all with the nasty, know nothing, unnamed bloggers.

The site will be called infinitehedge.com

With funding from all the major banks, the domain names of zerohedge.net  zerohedge.org   zerohedge.xxx  0hedge.com  maxhedge.com etc., will all be purchased and linked to infinitehedge.com so that no traffic is accidentally sent towards that unnamed blogger who deserves no respect and is never right

Only people "registered" and who work for "regulated" entities will be allowed to post and comment.  The public may access the site, and read it for wisdom and insight even if the material may be too intellectually challenging for the masses, but it is felt they are owed the opportunity to see true, regulated professionals, at work.

The motto will be more along the lines of "English Gentleman's Club, circa 1860" than the so-called "Fight Club" atmosphere at such anonymous blogger.  Only positive may be said about fellow elite, and although no attempt to directly malign the masses will be tolerated, inside jokes and snippets will be not only tolerated, but encouraged.

Additionally, as part of the new free trade agreement with South Korea, we will hire 10,000 South Korean workers, who when on break from farming World Of Warcraft, will click incessantly on the site and search for it, in order to ensure that the site "trends" well and "scores" high on any internet survey of what is hot.

Any questions can be directly to our press secretary, currently sharing office space at the Fed.

 

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 10:55 | Link to Comment theMAXILOPEZpsycho
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I can cream over deep rybka in chess, so I should be able to beat one of these boys...make me a marolin morobot already boffins!!

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 11:40 | Link to Comment Mercury
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And yet, ever since the demise of The Man Show, supply has not been meeting demand for girls jumping on trampolines.

When....Oh when! will markets once again be set free?!!!

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 10:56 | Link to Comment WallStreetClass...
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Lame "rally". This is a rally here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo13rT1rA14.

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 10:56 | Link to Comment nobusiness
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Asia is the future

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 10:57 | Link to Comment Temporalist
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CFTC Chilton says commodities limits to be set at 10%

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 10:57 | Link to Comment TheLooza
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could you all turn away for a few minutes? me and the robots haven't seen eachother for a while.

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 10:58 | Link to Comment Kina
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If you look carefully the robots were returning the ball before it was served. :)

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 11:05 | Link to Comment Lord Welligton
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Subtle.

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 10:58 | Link to Comment digalert
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It's EU bankster hot potato!

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 10:59 | Link to Comment Comay Mierda
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they should make them look like hot bitches with huge bouncy boobs

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 10:59 | Link to Comment mcguire
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yeah, impressive, but they dont show the failed prototypes.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=timfETD-N4o

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 10:59 | Link to Comment i love cholas
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This is what a student loan bubble looks like. Students MAKING FUCKING ROBOTS who can't even open a beer for me or do my laundry.

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 10:59 | Link to Comment dark_matter
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They need to teach them something useful like how to pilot drones.

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 11:09 | Link to Comment Instant Wealth
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These aren´t robots but prisoners in steaming hot robo suits fighting for their lives. The one who drops the ball first, gets his head chopped off.

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 11:53 | Link to Comment NotApplicable
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Oh, well in that case I'm no longer disappointed that they didn't show who screwed up. My money was on the closest bot, as it kept hitting it just barely over the net.

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 11:00 | Link to Comment Cocomaan
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I fully expect the SEC to not investigate this undermining of the noble sport of ping pong.

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 11:47 | Link to Comment GeezerGeek
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Somewhere, Forrest Gump is crying.

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 11:04 | Link to Comment Alex Kintner
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Great. They took our jobs. Now they are after our recreation activities. If they learn how to watch TV I'm fuked.

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 15:31 | Link to Comment IQ 145
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!! It's difficult to make a robot stupid enough to watch TV !

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 11:05 | Link to Comment falak pema
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now I know what happening between France and Germany...on Greece. They wont stop rallying like robots. This could go on forever!

New form of Chinese torture! 

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 11:05 | Link to Comment Bokkenrijder
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Fantastic elevator musique!

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 11:56 | Link to Comment NotApplicable
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They should've went with Daft Punk's Robot Rock.

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 11:12 | Link to Comment Long-John-Silver
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In a couple of years you'll walk into a McRobots where these robots will have replaced all humans.

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 11:23 | Link to Comment Instant Wealth
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Yes, sadly ... and it will never be same without human spit on the meat paddies. *sniff*

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 11:13 | Link to Comment SheepDog-One
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Awesome! I'd watch this all day rather than robots trading stocks!

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 11:17 | Link to Comment thecoloredsky
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How do I feel? I feel... ALIVE!
-Johnny 5

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 11:17 | Link to Comment marcusfenix
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so anyways, has anybody gotten around to fixing Europe yet?

come on ZH, that was on the to do list for today wasn't it?

good lord, you guys should be ashamed, sitting around watching robot ping pong porn...

no wonder nothing ever gets done around here. :-)

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 11:21 | Link to Comment Your Creator
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Spend more money, create more debt crash into the debt wall futher muckers!

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 12:13 | Link to Comment carbonmutant
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Murata Boy, remarkable bicycle-riding robot...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw7gPlhHLfQ

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 12:24 | Link to Comment pavman
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One day the human race will regret ever creating these ping pong robots!

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 12:37 | Link to Comment Schmuck Raker
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Next thing you know, those robots will be teaching the Chinese how to launch a boat.

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 13:29 | Link to Comment dugorama
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well, the bots aren't even autonomous... note that the kids watching have wires running to their hands... they are controlling the bots.  this is not just not much, this ain't nothin' high school kids in the robot competitions aren't doing, in fact it's less:

http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc

 

 

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 18:23 | Link to Comment dark_matter
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Good point. I watched it again and it became obvious that the robots are controlled by the students eye movements. What a cheap trick.

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 13:53 | Link to Comment reader2010
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In a few weeks, the world will learn it was another scientific fraud committed in China. 

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 14:39 | Link to Comment blueRidgeBoy
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I, for one, welcome our new ping-pong masters...

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 15:07 | Link to Comment Hobbleknee
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Can they quit wasting time on this BS and make one that will clear the table and do the dishes?

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 16:09 | Link to Comment Caveman93
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I wanna see robots tossing dwarfs with porn music!

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