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In November 2020, a video purportedly showing a robot hitting a series of baseballs in a batting cage made the rounds on social media. But this robot isn't real. It's a digital creation by Tom Coben, a VFX artist who also created the Bowlbot 5000, a realistic looking (but entirely digital) bowling robot. Coben posted a video of his Batbot 6000 to Instagram in July 2019. That posting was accompanied by several hashtags that identified it as a digital creation, such as #3drendering, #animation, and #CGI. Coben also shared this behind-the-scenes look: This isn't the first time Coben's digital creations have fooled social media users. In addition to the Bowlbot 5000 mentioned above, he created a computer-generated football kicking machine, the Footbot 7000, which can be viewed below:
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