Silver medal-winning Olympic table tennis player Miwa Harimoto recently had her skills tested by a robot called FORPHEUS at a semiconductor event in Tokyo. Developed by the Omron Corporation, this ...

Omron’s table tennis robot is getting smarter. At this week’s Ceatec electronics show in Japan, the company has unveiled a new version that uses machine learning to assess the strength of an opponent ...

Google DeepMind has trained a robot to play intermediate-level table tennis. Lintao Zhang/Getty Images Researchers from Google DeepMind have unveiled an A.I. powered robot that is not only able to ...

On Wednesday, researchers at Google DeepMind revealed the first AI-powered robotic table tennis player capable of competing at an amateur human level. The system combines an industrial robot arm ...

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, ...

ROCKVILLE, Md., July 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Leaders in the table tennis industry, JOOLA and iPong have teamed up to bring the sport into the future. Already 5 years in the making and in the final ...

In the most basic terms, the Infinity Smart Table Tennis Training Robot is like one of those ball-firing machines used by tennis players or in baseball batting cages. It fires out balls at a rate of ...

UC Berkeley recently released a video demonstrating its latest creation, the Humanoid Table TEnnis Robot (HITTER), playing a game of table tennis with human beings. The robot showcased exemplary ...

It's CEATEC, so I knew OMRON would once again bring out its massive table tennis robot to belittle us humans, but what I didn't expect was a significant performance jump this time. FORPHEUS, now at ...

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 ...

It was able to draw on vast amounts of data to refine its playing style and adjust its tactics as matches progressed. Do you fancy your chances of beating a robot at a game of table tennis? Google ...