A robot named Eldrick nailed the same hole-in-one that 22-year-old Tiger Woods aced at the 16th hole at TPC Scottsdale. And yes, the robot is named after Tiger, whose real first name is Eldrick.
That was Tiger’s hole-in-one back in 1997. Still impressive to this day, as the hole-in-one is one of the rarest feats in sports (and really, anything Tiger Woods did back in the day made you stop and watch). Most people walking the Earth will never accomplish one, and those who do, will never ever forget it.
But when you’re a robot, you probably don’t know what you’re doing, so this is the one exception. But it doesn’t mean it isn’t entirely cool.
Everyone in attendance celebrated by throwing their beers on the course, and rightfully so. It’s pretty neat to have been able to get a robot to be that precise. Not to mention, the odds of a professional golfer of making a hole-in-one on a par 3 are 2,500 to 1. For an amateur, the odds are 12,500 to 1.
If we’re training robots to knock down hole-in-ones, and drive cars, and solve Rubic’s cubes, what’s next? Are they going to be able to write this post?
Robots are taking over the world, slowly but surely.
