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" Could you beat this robot in beer pong? Do you ever see yourself being lame enough (or drunk enough) to challenge a robot to a game of beer pong? If you&amp;#039;re at CES this week, well, remove that lanyard, untuck that embroidered polo shirt, and go kick it at the Empire Robotics party pad, where androids dream of electric keg stands.      As CNET explains: The mechanized arm picks up each ping-pong ball in a green sphere. That sphere is known as a Versaball and it&amp;#039;s filled with sand. When the Versaball is pumped with air, the sand granules can move around freely and form an impression around the objects on which the sphere is placed. Once the ball is in place on top of an object, the system sucks the air out of it, causing the sand grains to tighten around the object, thereby allowing it to be lifted. The robot&amp;#039;s accuracy was calibrated by shooting at the center cup 10 times, and it moves according to which cup it&amp;#039;s aiming for, meaning it&amp;#039;s probably a better partner than you&amp;#039;re girlfriend who can&amp;#039;t get a re-rack to save her life. After each match, the robot retreats to its robot dorm room, where it eats a box of robot Easy Mac and stares longingly at a poster of Bob Marley smoking a fat robot joint. The robot then plays the same shitty Dave Matthews song on its robot guitar and spouts off tired robot opinions about Kurt Vonnegut. [H/T: The Atlantic] "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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