A new AI system called LATENT helps a humanoid robot react faster on the tennis court by learning from imperfect human motion ...

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 ...

This ain't teleoperation. Chinese researchers have tested a new, much quicker and easier method of teaching robots to play ...

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 ...

Using heaps of data, Google trained a table-tennis-playing robot to take on human competitors and get better as it did so. The results were impressive and represent a leap forward in robotic speed and ...

Researchers in China have developed a new system that significantly improves how humanoid robots ...

Google DeepMind has developed a robotic system capable of achieving amateur human-level performance in table tennis. This breakthrough highlights advancements in transferring skills learned in ...

Since the dawn of robotics, man has been trying to build a robot that can play ping pong — sorry, table tennis. Don’t believe me? Check out all the robot ping pong videos on YouTube. The latest effort ...