On the early evening of June 22, 2010, American tennis star John Isner began a grueling Wimbledon match against Frenchman ...

The robot was tested with a range of players from a local table tennis club which made clear that while it could easily defeat beginners, intermediate players pose a serious threat.

More information: David Nguyen et al, High Speed Robotic Table Tennis Swinging Using Lightweight Hardware with Model Predictive Control, arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.01617 ...

More information: David Nguyen et al, High Speed Robotic Table Tennis Swinging Using Lightweight Hardware with Model Predictive Control, arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.01617.

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 ...

Key Takeaways : Google DeepMind developed a robotic system that plays table tennis at an amateur human level. The project demonstrates significant progress in “Sim-to-Real” skill transfer.

The Kyoto, Japan-based corporation, Omron, first debuted its table tennis robot in 2013. Last week, Omron announced FORPHEUS has officially been named the world’s “First Robot Table Tennis ...

That’s one of the many upsides of playing against a robot. Mr. Blue, 61, grew up in a family of table tennis fanatics and played avidly with friends through high school.

A company called OMRON Robotics released the seventh generation of its table tennis robot, dubbed FORPHEUS — which the company claims can teach humans how to play the game — back in 2022.

Although the table tennis bot was able to beat all beginner-level human opponents it faced and 55% of those playing at amateur level, it lost all the games against advanced players. Still, it’s ...

Timo Boll, a former No. 1 table tennis player in the world, faced a table tennis-playing robot made by a Chinese robotics company. The rob BetFTW NFL NBA NHL MLB WNBA Newsletter ...