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 ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Humans have firmly retained their lead over robots at table tennis ...

Once unable to “even return a Ping-Pong ball” but now officially recognized by Guinness World Records for being the “first robot table tennis tutor,” Omron’s imposing bat-holding contraption has ...

Researchers at Stanford University have created an innovative humanoid robot called "HumanPlus" that can learn and perform a wide range of tasks by observing human actions. This breakthrough in ...

UC Berkeley recently released a video demonstrating its latest creation, the Humanoid Table TEnnis Robot (HITTER), playing a game of table tennis with human beings. The robot showcased exemplary ...

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 ...

Sports have long served as an important test for robots. The best-known example of the phenomenon may be the annual RoboCup soccer competition, which dates back to the mid-1990s. Table tennis has ...

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) - For someone who lost a season to a nagging elbow injury that needed surgery, Indian javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra understandably welcomed the postponement of the Tokyo ...

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 ...

If you're still unsure if robots really are taking over, CES 2018 serves as a good reminder that our future is both robot-flled and mildly terrifying. But if our future really is a robot dystopia, at ...

Bryson DeChambeau is known for his analytical approach to golf. In a press conference ahead of the Dell Technologies Championship on Wednesday, he proved that he also approaches his hobbies that way, ...