After an anxious month’s wait, we finally get to see the ultimate showdown of man vs. machine on the only battleground that matters—table tennis. The results? Humans: 1, KUKA robot: 0. Our future ...

Agilus the robot has balls – albeit of the Ping-Pong variety – as next month it’ll go up against German table tennis pro Timo Boll in a potentially dramatic man-against-machine sports-based face-off.

MIT engineers have built a fast, lightweight robotic arm that can play table tennis like a pro. Designed for high-speed accuracy, the robot sits at one end of a ping pong table and uses a standard ...

Google’s DeepMind has shown off an AI-powered robot that can beat the average player at a game of table tennis. According to an announcement by the company on X-formerly-Twitter, “it’s the first agent ...

A team at Google has spent a lot of time recently playing table tennis, purportedly only for science. Their goal was to see whether they could construct a robot which would not only play table tennis, ...

A table tennis-playing robot can keep up a rally against humans, but like many amateur players, it struggles when attempting fancier shots. The researchers ran this simulation so that a machine ...

With the French Open behind us, and Wimbledon weeks away, it’s time to get serious about your forehand. Which means you’ll need to live and breathe all things tennis starting now. Table tennis can’t ...

In the most basic terms, the Infinity Smart Table Tennis Training Robot is like one of those ball-firing machines used by tennis players or in baseball batting cages. It fires out balls at a rate of ...

ROCKVILLE, Md., July 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Leaders in the table tennis industry, JOOLA and iPong have teamed up to bring the sport into the future. Already 5 years in the making and in the final ...

Yesterday, March 11, a Chinese robotic company hosted the first ever man versus robot table tennis match in Sofia, Bulgaria. Playing for the humans was Timo Boll, a former No. 1 table tennis champ ...

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