CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a robot that can play table tennis ...

The findings are published on the arXiv preprint server. Building robots to play ping pong is a challenge that researchers ...

(Web Desk) - The latest in ping-pong playing robots has outperformed its predecessors and may soon surpass the strike speeds ...

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Most robotic arms are either very good at slow, careful movements, like picking up objects, or rapid movements like running.

Building robots to play ping pong is a challenge that researchers have taken up since the 1980s. The problem requires a unique combination of technologies, including high-speed machine vision ...

Would you like to play a robot in ping pong (translated)? We sure would. Inspired by an upcoming face-off between man and machine, [Jakob] wrote in to tell us about [Ulf Hoffmann’s] ping-pong ...

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 ...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a robot that can rival top human table tennis for speed and precision ... allowing for full-table coverage and more varied ...