Reinforcement learning—the fancy AI industry term for trial and error—was used to train it, including looking at videos of ...

Japanese electronics firm Omron says that in the beginning, its ping-pong-playing robot “could not even return a ping-pong ball,” which suggests its engineers were getting ahead of themselves when ...

Guinness World Records has recognized a robot with a unique ability: a machine called FORPHEUS is officially the “first robot table tennis tutor.” The contraption, which holds a ping pong paddle and ...

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Hardware manufacturer OMRON has this week unveiled a new ping-pong robot which is being created to enable table tennis players to improve their gameplay without the need to play against the partner.

Watson v. Ken Jennings. Deep Blue v. Kasparov. Like those man against machine battles, the KUKA robot v. Timo Boll match for ping pong supremacy could have been a referendum on how far the robots have ...

A new report on a ping pong playing robot was published in the New Scientist on Dec. 10. German researchers at the University of Tübingen used a machine-learning algorithm to teach the robotic arm to ...

Among the glittering gadgets of CES 2018 in Las Vegas was a robot that played ping pong. The catch? It's not for sale. WSJ's Katherine Bindley takes on the table-tennis terminator. LAS VEGAS—If you ...

Healthcare electronics maker Omron is showing off its sensing know-how with a huge ping pong-playing robot, but the robot is still easy to beat—for now. The 2.7-meter-tall, three-legged beast looked ...

I once played ping pong against the CEO of a robotics company in the Bay Area. He wasn't very good, so the game progressed awkwardly. I would ask a question and serve, he would send the ball flying ...

Guinness World Records has recognized a robot with a unique ability: a machine called FORPHEUS is officially the “first robot table tennis tutor.” The contraption, which holds a ping pong paddle and ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Guinness World Records has recognized a robot with a unique ability: a machine called ...