Actual robot sportscaster could replace robot-like human sportscasters

If you ’ve been win over for years that John Madden has been supervene upon by an iPod filled with generic football comment , you might be excited to get wind that Switzerland’sEcole Polytechnique Federale de Lausannehas been go on an even more advanced version . This one is outfit with artificial intelligence so it can really see what ’s happening on the field and provide commentary .

The shoal , which we will henceforward refer to as EPFL , came up with a complex algorithm that utilize several dissimilar video feeds , forever monitor , to watch a soccer , basketball , or football game in the same way a human commentator might . It divide the field into a grid , and tracks item-by-item musician based on uniform colour , number , and other cue , predicting the likelihood of each player ’s entry into each incision of the power grid .

The next step is to feed all that datum into a program that can synthesize the data point and make comment from it . At the moment , the system is intended to be used by coaches to analyze teamwork from a wide sight , but we ’d personally love to see a robotic commentator . Maybe it can become friends withthe machinelike journalistsof the future ?