[KenWittlief]

If you compare the clock / instruction cycle period of a microprocessor to a human heart beat, one second to a µP running at 1MHz is like 11.6 hrs.

The faster a processor is running, the more it can do in a shorter period of time. Ten seconds to your robot is like 116 hours to your human player (the amount of time it would take a human to do the same number of instructions or calculations)

A well designed robot should be able to acquire the upper target, get within range, and fire 10 balls, all within 5 seconds or less.

So what will it do with its remaining 5 seconds (58 hours in robot-time) ?

(the hokey pokey would be impressive :^)