With all the recent talk of AI posing existential risks to humanity and our privacy, Japanese company Omron is taking a softer, more innocuous approach. Specifically, with its table tennis robot ...

There were dozens of robots at CES, and many of them were the kinds with human features -- faces, arms, legs and even personalities. Some of them, such as a giant machine that can play table tennis ...

Robots took over the CES 2018 show floor this year, showing off skills from playing ping pong to dominating in Scrabble. While many of these robots were still in prototype phase, robot manufacturers ...

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 ...

China is currently busy accumulating most of the gold medals in the table tennis events in the Paris Olympics. Meanwhile, an AI-powered robot from Google DeepMind has achieved “amateur human level ...

MIT engineers are getting in on the robotic ping pong game with a powerful, lightweight design that returns shots with high-speed precision. The new table tennis bot includes a multijointed robotic ...

I always asked for a ping-pong table each Christmas, but my dad had a pretty good counter-argument: “You’re an only child. Who’s going to play with you?” Sad, but true. Which is why I always got socks ...

Ping-pong seems to be the sport of choice when it comes to tech firms showcasing their robotic wares. Japanese firm Omron, for example, made headlines several years ago with its ping-pong robot that ...

Engineers developed a ping-pong-playing robot that quickly estimates the speed and trajectory of an incoming ball and precisely hits it to a desired location on the table. MIT engineers are getting in ...

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