Robot Throws First Pitch at Phillies Game Video: PhillieBot Photo

Meet the PhillieBot, A Robot That Threw The First Pitch at the Phillies Game on April 20, 2011. No, The Robot Was Not Sponsored by Skynet. Here is the Video

We took one more step towards singularity today as a robot threw out the first pitch at the Philadelphia Phillies game on April 20, 2011. Of course, if you actually look at the Phillies robot first pitch video, you realize it'll be a while before humanity will be crushed by an army of robots.

The robot, named PhillieBot, is the creation of two Penn students who constructed the robot out of a Segway, an extra wheel, and a robotic arm with a pneumatic cylinder. Instead of looking like the Terminator, PhillieBot looked like the robot from Short Circuit as built by MacGyver and you'll have some idea of what the baseball throwing robot looks like.

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How Did the Baseball Throwing Robot Do?

Not so great. The robot's first pitch bounced off the ground before making it off the plate. Odds are, the robot wont' be making it into the Phillies' vaunted pitching rotation any time soon.

Here is a PhillieBot Video From the April 20, 2011 Phillies Game