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UC Berkeley recently released a video demonstrating its latest creation, the Humanoid Table TEnnis Robot (HITTER), playing a ...
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 ...
OMRON Corporation has made further advancements in its table tennis robot, FORPHEUS, which the company continues to develop further each year to showcase in an easy-to-understand manner the evolution ...
A team at Google has spent a lot of time recently playing table tennis, purportedly only for science. Their goal was to see whether they could construct a robot which would not only play table tennis, ...
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 ...
Read about the latest sports tech news, innovations, ideas and products that impact players, fans and the sports industry at SportTechie.com. Table Tennis or Ping-Pong? No matter how the game is ...
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 ...
Miwa Harimoto recently had her skills tested by a robot called FORPHEUS at the Semicon Japan last week. The Olympic table tennis player said she was impressed and struggled to keep pace with her rival ...
With the French Open behind us, and Wimbledon weeks away, it’s time to get serious about your forehand. Which means you’ll need to live and breathe all things tennis starting now. Table tennis can’t ...
It provides a benchmark of how far the robots we design have come, and, of course, a sense of how long it might be before they rise up and make us redundant. Carrying on that tradition, German ...
Agilus the robot has balls – albeit of the Ping-Pong variety – as next month it’ll go up against German table tennis pro Timo Boll in a potentially dramatic man-against-machine sports-based face-off.