Every service strives to establish a challenging marksmanship training program but is constrained by the limitations of currently available technologies. Traditional targetry systems such as rails and pop-ups are fundamentally limited and inflexible in presenting realistic challenging targets. Now Marathon Robotics has created an innovative solution which eliminates the current constraints and introduces a step change in quality of training.

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In previous decades, we had fantasies that, by this time, robots would be doing our jobs and all of our household chores so that we could live lives of luxury. We’re still not quite there yet, but robots have started doing things we never even considered they’d be able to do. We use them in law enforcement and military settings to disarm bombs and check out unsafe situations.

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Biped robot the balances dynamically using a human-like walking motion.

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From the album «Variation» 2000, originally from 1967.

Murata Boy, is a robot capable of riding bicycles unassisted.

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You’ve heard of Deep Blue, the IBM computer that bested Gary Kasparov in a chess match a decade ago. Now, there is Deep Green, a robot that plays pool. And by the looks of the demo video above, it can’t lose.

As Delicious founder, and now-Googler, Joshua Schachter points out, it is “only a matter of time before one of these kills a person.”

Deep Green is a project out of the robotics and computer Vision lab in Queens University. They are also working on an “augmented reality” version of pool that lines up your shot with lasers. This is also known as cheating.

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