Automate 2015 - Robotics Demonstrations, Part II 

Agree with all you wrote. Saved me writing the same :) As you say, I’d love to working on programming that stuff. Instead of 5G mobile core technologies that I do work on which might sound interesting but isn’t....

quilt

Different for every robot, unless you use something like ROS / RoboDK ABB: RobotStudio FANUC: ROBOGUIDE UR: Universal Robot's SDK with VirtualBox and more...

THOSE ROBOTS CAN "SEE"

Repeatability

I'm imagining they are using some sort of vision to pick the basketball up. As long as the hoop doesnt move and the programmer's moves were accurate, it will always make it in the hoop

Try it at home with a hairdryer and pingpong ball

Mark Osmond Coanda effect.

dim sum yeah but that is only when it is perpendicular to the ground right? This on is on a slant.

Isaiah Schwartz if the ball is light enough that probably works anyway. Either that or there are additional air hoses we don't see in the video.

I know i'm a bit late to the party, but it's a Bernoulli's Principle at work right here (ball moves from the low speed/high pressure zone to the high speed/low pressure zone; it works when stream is tilted as long as vertical force resulting from pressure difference is greater than weight of the ball)

low-skill job killers. The same was said about carriage drivers and cars, candle manufactures and electricity, secretaries and computers. Robot technitians a robotic support jobs are thriving.