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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 ...

Ping-pong seems to be the sport of choice when it comes to tech firms showcasing their robotic wares. Japanese firm Omron, for example, made headlines several years ago with its ping-pong robot that ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a robot that can play table tennis with the skill and flair of a human player. The robot smashes returns at ...

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Time lapse photos show a new ping-pong-playing robot performing a top spin. The robot quickly estimates the speed and trajectory of an incoming ball and precisely hits it to a desired location on the ...

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 ...

What can’t robots do these days? As the the engineering society IEEE’s robotics page shows, there’s a robot for everything these days, so why not a robot to play ping pong? Researchers at China’s ...

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 ...

In addition to training future players, the technology could expand the capabilities of other humanoid robots, such as for search and rescue. (Nanowerk News) MIT engineers are getting in on the ...