A team at Google has spent a lot of time recently playing table tennis, purportedly only for science. Their goal was to see whether they could construct a robot which would not only play table tennis, ...

Google’s DeepMind has shown off an AI-powered robot that can beat the average player at a game of table tennis. According to an announcement by the company on X-formerly-Twitter, “it’s the first agent ...

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 ...

Read about the latest sports tech news, innovations, ideas and products that impact players, fans and the sports industry at SportTechie.com. Table Tennis or Ping-Pong? No matter how the game is ...

With the French Open behind us, and Wimbledon weeks away, it’s time to get serious about your forehand. Which means you’ll need to live and breathe all things tennis starting now. Table tennis can’t ...

In the most basic terms, the Infinity Smart Table Tennis Training Robot is like one of those ball-firing machines used by tennis players or in baseball batting cages. It fires out balls at a rate of ...

Agilus the robot has balls – albeit of the Ping-Pong variety – as next month it’ll go up against German table tennis pro Timo Boll in a potentially dramatic man-against-machine sports-based face-off.

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 ...

It's CEATEC, so I knew OMRON would once again bring out its massive table tennis robot to belittle us humans, but what I didn't expect was a significant performance jump this time. FORPHEUS, now at ...