In modern sports, improvement no longer depends solely on access to a coach or training partner. Advances in sports ...

Using heaps of data, Google trained a table-tennis-playing robot to take on human competitors and get better as it did so. The results were impressive and represent a leap forward in robotic speed and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google DeepMind has developed a robotic system capable of achieving amateur human-level performance in table tennis. This breakthrough highlights advancements in transferring skills learned in ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Why it matters: Google's AI company DeepMind has developed a robotic arm that can rally with the best of amateur-level table tennis players. It can handle backhands, forehands, a decent amount of spin ...