A robot built by Sony AI is rapidly learning how to beat the world's very best table tennis players

Sony AI’s Ace robot can now compete with and sometimes beat elite table tennis players, a milestone for real-world robotics and fast physical AI.

A robot has become so good at playing table tennis that at times it defeated elite human players, in what has been hailed as "a longstanding milestone for AI".

The Sony AI project focuses on table tennis, an activity that has resisted the kind of breakthroughs seen in digital environments. While AI has already outperformed

What can’t robots do these days? As the the engineering society IEEE’s robotics page shows, there’s a robot for everything these days, so why not a robot to play ping pong? Researchers at China’s Zhejiang University in Hangzhou recently unveiled a ...

Time lapse photos show a new ping-pong-playing robot performing a top spin. The robot 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 on the robotic ping ...