Robots Now Dealing Blackjack
(Singularity Hub) - Here’s one dealer that won’t attempt to cheat you with sleight of hand – because it doesn’t have any, strictly speaking. More like bulbs with suction cups.
Yaskawa Motoman Robotics showed off their their blackjack-dealing, dual-arm SDA10F robot – or, “Dexter Bot” – at last month’s Automate 2013 in Chicago. It dealt while attendees played. It uses Cognex 2D vision guidance to read the cards, a task you want to get right if you’re a dealer, especially at the higher stakes tables.
With over 230,000 robots installed worldwide, Yaskawa’s Motoman robots do everything from painting, to spot welding, even handing out ice cream – pretty much any job that requires two hands.
Robots Now Dealing Blackjack
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