Captain of her high school tennis team and a four-year veteran of varsity tennis in college, Amanda Studnicki had been training for this moment for years. All she had to do now was think small. Like ...

Google DeepMind's recently unveiled table tennis robot is sparking new interest in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics technology. The emergence of this table tennis robot is being ...

From a mechanical bartender that can read customers’ moods to a humanoid robot that can sprint “blind” across complex terrain, the China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai brought robotics ...

As if it weren’t enough to have AI tanning humanity’s hide (figuratively for now) at every board game in existence, Google AI has got one working to destroy us all at Ping-Pong as well. For now they ...

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 ...

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 ...

An N.B.A. star’s trash talk was good-natured but typical, elite players said. They say they play along with it … to a point. Amy Wang of United States during a match on Monday.Credit... Supported by ...

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 ...

Anyone who owns a restaurant, works at a restaurant, or has eaten at a restaurant in the past couple of years knows that the industry has a major labor shortage. Now, robots with tiers of trays that ...

Timothee Chalamet is trading his guitar and harmonica for a paddle. Fresh off an Oscar-nominated performance as Bob Dylan in "A Complete Unknown," Chalamet is stepping into the shoes of a different ...