A video shows a 'Batbot 6000' hitting baseballs in a batting cage.
In November 2020, a video purportedly showing a robot hitting a series of baseballs in a batting cage made the rounds on social media. Wanna play with me? from CoolGadgetsTube But this robot isn't real. It's a digital creation by Tom Coben, a VFX artist who also created the 'Bowlbot 5000,' a realistic looking (but entirely digital) bowling robot. Coben posted a video of his 'Batbot 6000' to Instagram in July 2019. That posting was accompanied by several hashtags that identified it as a digital creation, such as #3drendering, #animation, and #CGI. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Tom Coben (@tomcoben) Coben also shared this behind-the-scenes look: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Tom Coben (@tomcoben) This isn't the first time Coben's digital creations have fooled social media users. In addition to the 'Bowlbot 5000' mentioned above, he created a computer-generated football kicking machine, the 'Footbot 7000,' which can be viewed below: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Tom Coben (@tomcoben)
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