Blind Juggler

These blind robot jugglers, as seen in the video below, are cool inventions.

Imagine bouncing a ball on your head while walking around a room. Now imagine doing that blind folded.

That's exactly what this flying juggling robot does.

Developed at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control in Switzerland, the blind juggler bounces a ping-pong ball without seeing it.

The robot accomplishes this feat without using any sensors to track the ball. Instead the robot is designed to carry out a sequence of mathematical and logical calculations to predict what the ball will do after it is bounced.

These calculations allow the robot to move and strike the ball repetitively without using any visual or motion sensors.