A high-speed robot takes on former world number one table tennis star Timo Boll ...

There are a number of Agilus models available, but Kuka says the line is designed for working at fast speeds with high levels of precision – qualities that make it suited for table tennis. The most ...

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After an anxious month’s wait, we finally get to see the ultimate showdown of man vs. machine on the only battleground that matters—table tennis. The results? Humans: 1, KUKA robot: 0. Our future ...

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.

Jeopardy! whiz Ken Jennings may have lost to a computer, but German table tennis champ Timo Boll tried to make sure everyone knows that man can still take down machine. The German robotics ...

It was man versus machine when world table tennis champion Timo Boll was pitted against his strongest challenger – a ROBOT. German ping pong legend Timo has won several world and European accolades ...

Last month Extra Mustard previewed a match that was set to take place between table tennis star Timo Boll and a robot. Well, we are happy to report that Boll actually took on the KUKA KR AGILUS -- ...

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, ...