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05th Feb 2016

VIDEO: Robot sinks hole-in-one at PGA Tour event

Kevin Beirne

It’s not quite Robot Wars, but this is still pretty impressive.

With everything from driving our cars to taking our jobs, machines are slowly become a bigger and bigger part of our lives.

But while their previous endeavours have mostly been functional, this move into the world of sport is a little more worrying.

During the unfortunately-named Waste Management Phoenix Open’s pro-am day this week, the Launch Directional Robot Intelligent Circuitry – aka LDRIC the golf robot – hit its first ever hole-in-one at the TPC Scottsdale’s infamous 16th hole.

Perhaps they’re hoping that recreational activities will distract the machines from the inevitable robot uprising.

Topics:

Golf,Robots,Tech