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It provides a benchmark of how far the robots we design have come, and, of course, a sense of how long it might be before they rise up and make us redundant. Carrying on that tradition, German ...

The video most of us have been waiting for is here: World table tennis champion Timo Boll faces off against his strongest challenger – KUKA, a robot. FYI, Boll has been voted German sportsman of the ...

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After an anxious month’s wait, we finally get to see the ultimate showdown of man vs. machine on the only battleground that matters—table tennis. The results? Humans: 1, KUKA robot: 0. Our future ...

Former table tennis champion Timo Boll has played and beaten a one-armed Kuka robot said to be the fastest robot on earth. In a newly released viral video, Boll makes a dazzling comeback from 6-0 down ...

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It was billed as the ultimate test of man vs machine, with a world champion table tennis player taking on one of the world's most advanced robots. Footage put online shows the pair competing in a head ...

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 ...

When robot maker Kuka announced that it would be pitting its Agilus robot against table tennis star Timo Boll last month, we expected a fair fight. Conditioned professional human athlete against a ...

It was man versus machine when world table tennis champion Timo Boll was pitted against his strongest challenger - a ROBOT. German ping pong legend Timo has won several world and European accolades ...

Former table tennis champion Timo Boll has played and beaten a one-armed Kuka robot said to be the fastest robot on earth. In a newly released viral video, Boll makes a dazzling comeback from 6-0 down ...