Google Fiber Helped a Sick Boy Throw a Baseball Pitch with Robots

When you combine Google Fiber , a automaton and a boy 1,800 miles away from a baseball biz , you already jazz it ’s going to be a good story . But this is better than just good . Google Fiber helped a son with a rare blood disorderliness hurl out the first delivery at a baseball game that was 1,800 international mile away .

Like most boy , Nick LeGrande want to play ball when he grew up . Unlike most boys , Nick , who is just Clarence Shepard Day Jr. away from turning 14 years older , endure from a life - threatening blood disorder called aplastic anaemia . His resistant system is weakened to the point where he ca n’t go to baseball game game anymore .

Insert Google Fiber and Oakland A ’s hurler Ryan Cook . Cook was creditworthy for linking everyone together . Google Fiber built a mini baseball orbit at its Kansas City campus for Nick to come up to ( Nick lives nearby ) while a telerobotic pitch machine land in Oakland before the Oakland A’s - New York Yankees game . The telerobotic pitching machine in Oakland basically mimicked whatever Nick would do in Kansas City . So when he threw a pitch at Google ’s baseball field in Kansas City , the automaton threw the first sales talk in Oakland . Awesome .