To the list of French accomplishments possible now add “robot basketball training” — a minimum of if the video above is to be believed. But you almost certainly shouldn’t believe it when members of Poitiers Basket 86 testify that amusement park rides improved the team’s “spatial orientation” and helped them defeat top-ranked Chalon. It might be different if the “robots” were teaching them perfect free-throw or helping them walk , obviously, but PB86 is legendary for its innovative advertising, and this looks like a unusual example. Hit the video above to peer the pranksters at work, but know that, as with Sartre and Camus, something gets lost in translation.
[Thanks, Antoine]
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