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 ...

New research suggests brains require more cognitive effort to play table tennis with a robotic ball machine than against a human. Researchers studying people playing table tennis have found that their ...

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, ...

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 ...

My first robot stop was Acemate's booth, where it had its tennis robot rolling back and forth on a mini tennis court opposite ...

Recent advancements in table tennis robotics have transformed the landscape of automated play, bringing together cutting‐edge techniques in motion planning, control, and trajectory prediction. At its ...

Captain of her high school tennis team and a four-year veteran of varsity tennis in college, Amanda Studnicki had been training for this moment for years. All she had to do now was think small. Like ...

Using heaps of data, Google trained a table-tennis-playing robot to take on human competitors and get better as it did so. The results were impressive and represent a leap forward in robotic speed and ...