Subject: Steelers experimenting with robots in practice Fri May 20, 2016 9:56 am
We’ve seen virtual reality training and other manners of technology take a place in the football landscape in recent years and now robotics has made its way to the field.
The Steelers have spent some time this offseason experimenting with Mobile Virtual Player, a robotic tackling dummy developed at Dartmouth College as a tool to work on tackling that limits the amount of player-on-player contact during a practice session. The robot is still in a testing phase, but can move, weave, cut, speed up and otherwise mimic a ball-carrier.
Coach Mike Tomlin and his staff are figuring out other uses for the robots, which creators hope will become more widely available in 2017.
“The applications we are quickly finding are endless,” Tomlin said, via the team’s website (which also has video of the robot in action).
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Subject: Re: Steelers experimenting with robots in practice Fri May 20, 2016 1:12 pm
Wallace108 wrote:
We’ve seen virtual reality training and other manners of technology take a place in the football landscape in recent years and now robotics has made its way to the field.
The Steelers have spent some time this offseason experimenting with Mobile Virtual Player, a robotic tackling dummy developed at Dartmouth College as a tool to work on tackling that limits the amount of player-on-player contact during a practice session. The robot is still in a testing phase, but can move, weave, cut, speed up and otherwise mimic a ball-carrier.
Coach Mike Tomlin and his staff are figuring out other uses for the robots, which creators hope will become more widely available in 2017.
“The applications we are quickly finding are endless,” Tomlin said, via the team’s website (which also has video of the robot in action).
Subject: Re: Steelers experimenting with robots in practice Sun May 22, 2016 12:53 am
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Subject: Re: Steelers experimenting with robots in practice Sun May 22, 2016 2:11 pm
If it gives a similar feel as a regular body and keeps people from getting injured then I am all for it. If the team can stay healthy they are SB contenders.
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Subject: Re: Steelers experimenting with robots in practice Mon May 23, 2016 1:17 pm
robotic tacking dummies. still better than cam thomas
