Cable-actuated air hockey robot — full CAD render

Cable-Actuated Air Hockey Robot

A four-cable parallel robot for air hockey. Four corner-mounted MJ5208 BLDC motors tension cables that meet at the mallet; an overhead camera + EKF tracks puck and mallet; a naive MPC plans quintic-spline strikes.

May 2026 · Thomas Yu, Athul Krishnan, Eric Yamaguchi, Larry Hui