Queen’s egg-heads keeping one foot on the ground

You’ve heard of Deep Blue? Well this afternoon, Techdigest publishes a report on Deep Green, a Pool-playing robot “developed by a team of Queen's University egg-heads” (their words, not mine).

Unfortunately, not Queen’s University of Belfast, but in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Mounted on a gantry above the table (hint: shift the table before you rack up the balls at the start!) the system features overhead cameras and a robotic wrist that holds the cue and tries not to rip the baize.

It made it to the cover story of the IEEE’s Computer Magazine where you can read about the contraption in more detail.