Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Joe Nedney takes on a Robot

 

It was an exhibition unlike any other. Inside San Francisco’s breezy Kezar Stadium stood Joe Nedney, a 14-year NFL veteran and kicker for the San Francisco 49ers, just inside the right hash mark. And dead straight away from the field goal posts at the stadium’s west end was Ziggy, a 340-pound, nitro-powered robot that knocks through 60-yard field goals with, as the event coordinators described it, "dead-on accuracy…more on Wired

 

http://www.wired.com/playbook/2010/04/man-versus-machine-just-for-kicks

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