A mower includes a first traveling unit which travels on a ground, a first operating unit which is joined to the first traveling unit and includes a blade which mows grass on the ground, and a guide member provided in front of the first traveling unit. While the first traveling unit travels forward, balls (objects) on the ground and in contact with the guide member move along the guide member.

A ball tracking and scoring system and also enables a game implementation system using this system.

A robotic collection system includes: a working robot configured to autonomously travel on a field to collect target objects on the field; and a management controller configured to manage a work schedule of the working robot. The management controller includes a processor. The processor obtains information about an amount of the target objects on the field, and changes an existing work schedule based on the information.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for identifying the location of a striker of an object, includes, in at least one aspect, a method including receiving a request from a mobile computing device operated by a striker located in a striking area having space for two or more strikers to strike objects into a target area; initiating an audio recording by the microphone of the mobile computing device; identifying a physical location in the striking area and a first strike time determination for an object struck from the striking area based on sensor observations of the object in flight between the striking area and the target area; identifying a second strike time determination in the audio recording; and associating the physical location with the mobile computing device when the second strike time determination is matched with the first strike time determination.

A method and system for providing shot tracking data to a client device is disclosed herein. The system includes multiple golf ball tracking sensors positioned at multiple golf driving ranges, multiple shot application programming interfaces (API), and a shot API proxy. Each of the shot APIs is configured to receive shot data from each of the golf ball tracking sensors at a corresponding golf driving range venue such as a TOPGOLF® entertainment venue.

A main body of a ball collecting and discharging machine includes a traveling portion and a ball collecting and discharging portion to collect and discharge balls. A controller causes the ball collecting and discharging portion to collect the balls scattered in a ball scattered area while causing the traveling portion to cause the main body to travel along a ball collecting route in the ball scattered area. When the ball collecting and discharging portion reaches a state of being ready to discharge balls during or after ball collecting work, the controller causes the traveling portion to cause the main body to travel along the ball discharging route and causes the ball collecting and discharging portion to discharge balls at the ball discharging site.

Systems and apparatus for receiving golf balls include an apparatus including: a body having an ingress and an egress for golf balls passing through the body, wherein each of the golf balls includes a radio frequency identification tag; at least one antenna of a radio frequency identification reader, the at least one antenna arranged with respect to the body to receive information from the golf balls for identification of the golf balls; and multiple protrusions located within the body, the multiple protrusions being positioned with respect to each other in a Galton configuration that both (i) impedes the golf balls from passing through the body without being read by the radio frequency identification reader, and (ii) allows the golf balls to pass through the body without jamming therein.

A ball tracking and scoring system and also enables a game implementation system using this system.

There is provided a dispersed object collection apparatus including an electric machine configured to run by itself along a set running route is an activity area. The machine is caused to start from a collection place and run by itself is a set working area to accommodate dispersed objects dispersed in the working area into an accommodation section provided in or outside the machine and collect the dispersed objects is the collection place. The working area is set as a closed region along outer edges of the dispersed objects in an aggregation region in which a plurality of dispersed objects are close together.

A system and method for video analytics of a golf game is disclosed. In an embodiment, cameras capture videos from different angles of a golfer's swing and/or strike; a system network comprises: a processing module to receive the videos, to 3D-model the trajectory of the swing/strike, and 3D-model the golfer; a machine-learning module to receive 3D swing-trajectories and golfer models of swings/strikes of professional golfers and compute a 3D model of one or more reference swings, as a function of an aggregation of the professional golfers' swings/strikes; a database storing the reference swings/strikes; an analysis module configured to receive the golfer's 3D swing/strike trajectory model and the 3D golfer model, compare the 3D trajectory model with the reference swing, and compute recommendations for the golfer, as a function of the comparison; and a display module configured to display the recommendations to the golfer.