The next best thing to being there? Skip a stone on a mountain lake, controlling the angle and power of Skippy the stone-throwing robot.
(Credit: Video screenshot by Leslie Katz/CNET)
Robots are getting mighty specific these days -- what with machines that specialize in tasks like playing hockey and winning at rock, paper, scissors.
Meet today's super-specific robot, Skippy, who skips stones -- and with impressive height and consistency. Based on the shores of a lake in Sun Valley, Idaho, Skippy's sole purpose is basking in the sunshine and flinging stones across an idyllic little body of water set against the mountains. Ah, the simple life.
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