Kuka vs. Boll will take place on March 11 to celebrate the opening of Kuka's first ever plant in Shanghai. The new 20,000 square-meter (215,300 sq ft) operation will produce Kuka's KR Quantec series ...

Yesterday we saw a homemade ping pong playing robot that someone made in their garage, and now the KUKA Robot has taken on ping pong champion Timo Boll. The video below shows Timo Boll go head to head ...

Agilus the robot has balls – albeit of the Ping-Pong variety – as next month it’ll go up against German table tennis pro Timo Boll in a potentially dramatic man-against-machine sports-based face-off.

Jeopardy! had Watson and chess had Deep Blue, so it was time for ping-pong to face a formidable opponent in technological form. The incredibly quick KUKA robot, normally used in manufacturing, squared ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WHO WILL WIN? (YouTube) WHO WILL WIN? (YouTube) In a few weeks, man will face off in an epic battle against machine — in a game of ...

Yesterday, March 11, a Chinese robotic company hosted the first ever man versus robot table tennis match in Sofia, Bulgaria. Playing for the humans was Timo Boll, a former No. 1 table tennis champ ...

Watson v. Ken Jennings. Deep Blue v. Kasparov. Like those man against machine battles, the KUKA robot v. Timo Boll match for ping pong supremacy could have been a referendum on how far the robots have ...

Last month Extra Mustard previewed a match that was set to take place between table tennis star Timo Boll and a robot. Well, we are happy to report that Boll actually took on the KUKA KR AGILUS -- ...

In just over 20 days, the German ping pong champion is set to go head-to-head against the awesome might of the KUKA Robotics industrial robot in a man vs machine ping pong competition. The battle of ...

The war between man and machine has officially reached the sports arena. On Tuesday, KUKA robotics released a YouTube video of a table tennis match between former world No. 1 Timo Boll and KUKA’s own ...