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 ...

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) - For someone who lost a season to a nagging elbow injury that needed surgery, Indian javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra understandably welcomed the postponement of the Tokyo ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The first thing that I should say about FORPHEUS is that it’s gentle. The artificially intelligent Ping-Pong tutor built by Omron is not trying to beat you. It’s not trying to take over the world.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...