MIT engineers are getting in on the robotic ping pong game with a powerful, lightweight design that returns shots with high-speed precision. The new table tennis bot includes a multijointed robotic ...

The 2026 Hitch Open Ping-Pong Embodied AI Challenge (the “HOPE AI Challenge”) — created by the Intelligent Racing Foundation as a new physical AI competition league in the Hitch Open World AI ...

Researchers at Stanford University have created an innovative humanoid robot called "HumanPlus" that can learn and perform a wide range of tasks by observing human actions. This breakthrough in ...

A table tennis robot built by Sony maneuvers to hit the ball back to human opponent Akito Saeki during a match in Tokyo. (Sony AI via AP) A few days ago came the astonishing news that the world record ...

TOKYO — An autonomous robot ping-pong player dubbed Ace has achieved a milestone in AI and robotics in Tokyo by competing against, and sometimes defeating, top-level human players at table tennis, a ...

Ace can read the trajectory of a ball, adjust the racket angle, and respond with strokes that keep the exchange alive with real players. This feat represents a milestone for the world of robotics, a ...

Sony AI has built a robot that can beat elite ping-pong players, and the way it wins is probably the most interesting part of the whole thing. The robot, called Ace, competed against elite amateur and ...

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across each month. In the past, we’ve featured year-end roundups of cool science stories we ...

What can’t robots do these days? As the the engineering society IEEE’s robotics page shows, there’s a robot for everything these days, so why not a robot to play ping pong? Researchers at China’s ...

Time lapse photos show a new ping-pong-playing robot performing a top spin. The robot quickly estimates the speed and trajectory of an incoming ball and precisely hits it to a desired location on the ...