I tend to approach robot videos with a mild air of defeat and scepticism, in no small part because a lot of hype has been ...

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 paddle and ...

Japanese electronics firm Omron says that in the beginning, its ping-pong-playing robot “could not even return a ping-pong ball,” which suggests its engineers were getting ahead of themselves when ...

The Knights of the Ping Pong Table, as the team is also known, held an open house at MELHS on Sept. 8 where members ...

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If you're still unsure if robots really are taking over, CES 2018 serves as a good reminder that our future is both robot-flled and mildly terrifying. But if our future really is a robot dystopia, at ...

Practice makes perfect, and many types of sports offer ways for individuals to hone skills alone on their own time. But what if your game happens to be ping-pong? A team has developed a smart robot ...

Practice makes perfect. But for a collaborative sport like ping pong, it’s not always easy to find the perfect partner. Brothers, Alexander and Harrison Chen, solved this problem by building the ...

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 always got socks ...

People define their own fun. For Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, it seems like it's amusing to go to a conference and commune with robots. On Monday at the company's MARS conference in Palm Springs, California ...

I once played ping pong against the CEO of a robotics company in the Bay Area. He wasn't very good, so the game progressed awkwardly. I would ask a question and serve, he would send the ball flying ...

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 paddle and ...