EXPLAINER: Robots and Olympics — a potent photo combination
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The five members of the International Olympic Photo Pool all employ robotics to augment their wire offerings
BEIJING -- A figure skater framed only by ragged ice gazes up, almost beseechingly. A goaltender sprawls inside a net, defeat written all over his limbs, even with his face obscured.
These Renaissance painting-like images capture the barrage of emotions evoked during Winter Olympics competition. The key behind them? Robots.
The images don't read “(AP Photo/Robot),” though. Good old-fashioned photography skills and instinct are integral to making them.
The five members of the International Olympic Photo Pool — Reuters, Getty Images, Agence France-Presse, Reuters, Xinhua and, of course, The Associated Press — all employ robotics to augment their wire offerings.
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