The Indiana Pacers were hoping for a top-four selection in the NBA draft. They missed getting there by one spot. That means ...

The league’s worst team this season is getting the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft. The Washington Wizards won the draft lottery ...

The Pacers ended up with the fifth pick and thus forfeited the spot to the Los Angeles Clippers due to a deal Indiana cut ...

Engineers developed a ping-pong-playing robot that quickly estimates the speed and trajectory of an incoming ball and precisely hits it to a desired location on the table. MIT engineers are getting in ...

Ace, a ping-pong-playing robot, is the first to beat elite human players in a competitive sport, according to Sony AI. It's a big milestone for robotics that could extend beyond sports. NBC News' ...

A paddle-wielding robot is so adept at playing table tennis that it is posing a tough challenge to elite human players and sometimes defeating them, according to a new study in the journal Nature that ...

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A few days ago came the astonishing news that the world record in the half-marathon was obliterated by a 5-foot-5 ...

A robot built by Sony has defeated elite human table tennis players in a breakthrough that researchers say could signal a new era for artificial intelligence and robotics in fast-paced physical tasks.

An AI-powered robot named Ace has just beaten elite players at the sport in Tokyo. The feat has been hailed as a milestone ...

Ace playing table tennis. Credit: Sony. Artificial intelligence has essentially been a disembodied brain during most of its applications. It easily conquered chess and Go, but always within the ...

Ace is an AI-powered articulated robot that uses 12 cameras to compete against top table tennis players. Ace is an AI-powered articulated robot that uses 12 cameras to compete against top table tennis ...