A table tennis-playing robot can keep up a rally against humans, but like many amateur players, it struggles when attempting fancier shots. The researchers ran this simulation so that a machine ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a robot that can play table tennis with the skill and flair of a human player. The robot smashes returns at ...