Baseball playing robots take away the excitement from the game

The element of uncertainty is the driving force behind any sport; each game is a new chapter. Human slipups are a boon to excitement, but mechanical accuracy is actually dragging the excitement out of the pitch. Lemme explain. Professor Masatoshi Ishikawa at the University of Tokyo has developed two baseball playing robots – one that lands ninety percent of the pitches in the strike zone, while the other that strikes the ball with hundred percent accuracy. Now, my point is that would you go watch a match with an outcome that’s known?

Via: Engadget