In this video you will see part of the manufacturing process and testing of robot arms being used by the agency AFP in the 2012 London Olympics. With this expensive and complex system will be able to offer incredible photographs from viewpoints impossible (zenith, for example).
We told you that Reuters would have this type of technology for the games opened in yesterday, although in his case have used Canon and in the AFP have chosen Nikon D4 , but obviously the big agencies are going to as a car and stands out in a competitive edge, the others quickly put up to keep pace.
The agency AFP will use a dozen of these mechanical arms to be monitored remotely for aerial photographs and other points of view "impossible" to cover the London Games. Certainly one way to get expensive but effective images that would otherwise be virtually impossible (for position of the photographer, mostly) and to ensure the shots under almost any circumstance.
Imagine how easy it will one of these toys up shooting bursts in an athlete with the precision of a machine . Do you think that robots and computers will be eating more and more territory to the traditional method of sports photographers?