What I didn’t expect from the Ping-Pong robot was mercy. Omron intentionally built FORPHEUS to focus on improving the human player, not to defeat him. So there were not trick shots or crazy spins.

Guinness World Records has recognized a robot with a unique ability: a machine called FORPHEUS is officially the “first robot table tennis tutor.” The contraption, which holds a ping pong ...

If Omron’s commanding-looking robot does somehow end up building an army to take over the world, guess you could try to distract them with a few games of Ping-Pong while the family packs the car.

Technology Robots Google is training robots to interact with humans through ping pong Here's how a machine learns to rally. Harry Guinness Oct 19, 2022 7:00 PM EDT ...

Researchers in Germany developed a robot that was able to teach itself how to play ping pong in 90 minutes. According to a report in the New Scientist, Yapeng Gao, Jonas Tebbe, and Andreas Zell at ...

This ping pong robot works in tandem with a smart phone app and allows users to create their own custom shots by choosing the speed, direction, and spin with which the Trainerbot shoots balls.

Away from the ping pong table, Omron reps mingled with robots roaming the floor around the booth — a common site for quite a few companies at CES. Other machines labored as if they were on the ...

I have good reason to believe in my ping pong skills, thanks to Forpheus, a robot I met this week at CES in Las Vegas. Made by Omron, Forpheus first appeared at CES last year to show off its ping ...

I always asked for a ping-pong table each Christmas, but my dad had a pretty good counter-argument: “You’re an only child. Who’s going to play with you?” Sad, but true. Which is why I ...

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Forpheus, a ping-pong “tutor” built by Japan-based Omron, made its U.S. debut this week at the CES 2018 tech show—but it won’t ever go on sale.

While the robot looks serious and perhaps even sinister on the outside, it can display positive messages on the artificial net of the ping pong table, saying things like “Good job! Hang in there!” ...