To start things off, Google DeepMind built a database of all the initial states a table tennis ball could have, such as position, speed and spin. From here, the robot arm just practised various ...

A robot that plays table tennis put Olympian Miwa Harimoto through her paces at a demonstration event organized by the semiconductor industry in Tokyo. Developed by Omron Corp., the ninth ...

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AI robots, for example, are being trained to be as close to humans as possible. They are folding laundry, doing chores, solving puzzles, and this one plays table tennis like a pro athlete.