On Wednesday, researchers at Google DeepMind revealed the first AI-powered robotic table tennis player capable of competing at an amateur human level. The system combines an industrial robot arm ...

It was able to draw on vast amounts of data to refine its playing style and adjust its tactics as matches progressed. Do you fancy your chances of beating a robot at a game of table tennis? Google ...

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 ...

The pressure was palpable last summer at the Paris 2024 Games’ table tennis arena. China’s prodigy, Fan Zhendong, faced Sweden’s sensation in the men’s singles match for gold. Fan had dropped the ...

Widely considered to be the greatest table tennis player of all time, Ma Long approached journalists after China’s round of 16 romping of India in the men’s team competition on Tuesday at the Paris ...

The summer Olympics have arrived, and you know what that means—table tennis at the absolute highest level! Whether you're an enjoyer of Forrest Gump, Balls of Fury, or merely grew up with an easily ...

Here's what you need to know about table tennis at the 2024 Paris Olympics. When did table tennis become an Olympic sport? Debuting in 1988 when Seoul successfully bid for the Summer Games, table ...

She had even retired from professional table tennis aged 20 – something which allowed her the opportunity to uproot her life in Asia and move across the Pacific Ocean to Chile – and at one stage went ...

A wealthy Qatari businessman’s campaign to lead the sport’s global body is being investigated. One of his critics was detained and interrogated in Doha. By Hannah Beech In a near-empty venue in a near ...