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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google DeepMind has developed a robotic system capable of achieving amateur human-level performance in table tennis. This breakthrough highlights advancements in transferring skills learned in ...

BEIJING--China kicked off a three-day long sports showcase for humanoid robots on Friday, looking to highlight progress in ...

Hardly a day goes by without impressive new robotic platforms emerging from academic labs and commercial startups worldwide. Humanoid robots in particular look increasingly capable of assisting us in ...

Brain scans taken during table tennis reveal differences in how we respond to human versus machine opponents. Captain of her high school tennis team and a four-year veteran of varsity tennis in ...