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 ...

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’ve ever found yourself without a partner for a game of pingpong, you might be excited to hear that technology has come to the rescue. Imagine having a robot that can rally with you, challenge ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google DeepMind has trained a robot to play intermediate-level table tennis. Lintao Zhang/Getty Images Researchers from Google DeepMind have unveiled an A.I. powered robot that is not only able to ...

Silver medal-winning Olympic table tennis player Miwa Harimoto recently had her skills tested by a robot called FORPHEUS at a semiconductor event in Tokyo. Developed by the Omron Corporation, this ...

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 ...

Omron’s table tennis robot is getting smarter. At this week’s Ceatec electronics show in Japan, the company has unveiled a new version that uses machine learning to assess the strength of an opponent ...

It's CEATEC, so I knew OMRON would once again bring out its massive table tennis robot to belittle us humans, but what I didn't expect was a significant performance jump this time. FORPHEUS, now at ...