Juggling ROBOT or NOT???

What is this contraption? A machine? A robot? Let's find out! Thanks to all my Patreon supporters for making video essays like this possible. You can contribute too over at Patreon.com/lukeburrage Source videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUPJ71z9zJE The Circular Cloverleaf Blind Juggler - IDSC ETH Zurich TheBlindJuggler https://www.instagram.com/p/CMfp04KDSK4/ Props to @stephenmeschke for building this four-armed juggling robot https://www.instagram.com/p/CPtpxdnD8eU/ The next level juggling robot is here ! https://www.instagram.com/p/CLici3Bjasf/ Teamwork makes a dream work! - check out this satisfying video shot by @craigquat at the @cimac_valparaiso Chilean juggling convention https://www.instagram.com/p/CFJ61LjghlJ/ "A managed anti-entropic sequence of orbital events, harmonised by space and time." https://www.instagram.com/p/CIv52GIDD0R/ Such brilliance ! Circa 1998 Featuring @instantjuggler and the cool prop his dad built for him. #ijajugglers https://www.instagram.com/p/B9zkollDVP5/ Repost from @shun__z of this oddly satisfying juggling contraption in Japan #ijajugglers https://www.instagram.com/p/BtGJFjWATpJ/ https://www.instagram.com/p/B4Wi2UCgBb1/ https://www.instagram.com/p/B9JKxvdAlXr/ shun__z https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HNAL8ZKdyM Andrej Rajnoha CableEndy juggler - cable-driven parallel robot (B&R Automation) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQFTO-Bw0_k Fred Juggling machine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEaZIax5sro Biomechanics and Biorobotics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omGHeVmv6NI&t=10s paulclinger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnDwvsVk_nc BotJunkie Robotic Two Ball Juggling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8I7EXXgTvk Noah Cowan The "Buehgler" juggling 2 balls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj36Z5ZIC6Q machines100 Juggling Machine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HZ8aMgn4SI Stefan Schaal 3-Ball and 5-Balll Shannon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsLFYhI6gZY Nathan Peterson 7 ball juggling robot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKJEbs64Y2o Chris Atkeson 3 ball juggling and devil sticking by a robot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDxWHNtZvyI Chris Atkeson Sarcos Dextrous Arm learning to catch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxD5ejg9Q7g Chris Atkeson 3 Ball Blind Robot Paddle Juggling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4eRTVjFDoA Chris Atkeson test video: Juggling Demo 2 of 2 June 1988 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up85250x5gc Chris Atkeson Human and Robot Devil Sticking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9asDO_1A27U ServoJuggler Robot Juggles 5 Balls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1QEuxYvduQ ServoJuggler Servo driven mechanical Juggler 3ball mode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W3wgwUfjZA Food Related Simple Automata CAM toy compilation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83eGcht7IiI DisneyResearchHub Playing Catch and Juggling with a Humanoid Robot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tOukGhSNdU&t=19s RightWayTrey ME2011 Juggling Robot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE-hdsBPgBs Hochschule Kaiserslautern Studierendenprojekt JUGGLING ROBOT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_e5YBjLfxw seriousL3G0 Lego Juggler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CR5y8qZf0Y Sergei Lupashin Quadrocopter Ball Juggling, ETH Zurich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eZY6399hTY TheBlindJuggler Will It Juggle - Blind Juggler - IDSC ETH Zurich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U40VDrRQDDY TheBlindJuggler The Swinging Blind Juggler - IDSC ETH Zurich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLrz_R_T6kg Hybrid Robotics Ball Juggling with Cassie Cal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XfJ8W5rrY0 Matthew Carlsen Arduino IoT Project (2020) - Robotic Juggling Machine (Autonomous) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTE8xauGTuo Namiki Laboratory, Chiba University 3 ball juggling by duam hand-arm robot　(RSJ2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12DdROaie58 Stephen Meschke Juggling Machine Progress II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDKXT1ZhEgA New Scientist Ball-catching robot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oudrRYBibBU Plastic Pals Robot can play catch! https://www.instagram.com/p/CD29mofi16L/ miguelgigososronda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i0mltupImI Eugenius Nil arronsparks @mrmattpang makes the best toys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjwBtd9DEBk Jay Gilligan "Blick" by Kapsel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeeKeoWZn5I Jay Gilligan Object Episodes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1WKLpRMuJc Michael Karas Pipes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chhCqRlqL5g Jay Gilligan "Bevis" by Kapsel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJPTAVFbULQ The Nikulin Circus Festival Жонглер Claudius Specht (2013) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEONozsICfs eventjonglage Jongleur mit Wurfmaschine, Showact Keulenjonglage | club juggling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk2IG2Y6Bgs Mark Hayward https://youtu.be/AfTRFsy8ZDo bad1dobby Andrei Popov 1991 https://www.instagram.com/p/BOkMHJvhsHk/ petterwadsten Work in progress #ringthing