I tend to approach robot videos with a mild air of defeat and scepticism, in no small part because a lot of hype has been ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Knights of the Ping Pong Table, as the team is also known, held an open house at MELHS on Sept. 8 where members ...

There aren’t too many sports named for the sound that is produced during the game. Even though it’s properly referred to as “table tennis” by serious practitioners, ping pong is probably the most ...

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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 ...

I always asked for a ping-pong table each Christmas, but my dad had a pretty good counter-argument: “You’re an only child. Who’s going to play with you?” Sad, but true. Which is why I always got socks ...

People define their own fun. For Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, it seems like it's amusing to go to a conference and commune with robots. On Monday at the company's MARS conference in Palm Springs, California ...

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 ...

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 ...