Miwa Harimoto recently had her skills tested by a robot called FORPHEUS at the Semicon Japan last week. The Olympic table tennis player said she was impressed and struggled to keep pace with her rival ...

OMRON has been making a table tennis robot for a while now, with the AI-powered future table tennis champion dubbed FORPHEUS in its fourth-generation state now able to use its new companion robot arm ...

A robot that plays table tennis put Olympian Miwa Harimoto through her paces at a demonstration event organized by the semiconductor industry in Tokyo. Developed by Omron Corp., the ninth-generation ...

According to Google DeepMind, a table tennis robot must be able to perform not only low-level skills such as hitting the ball back at an opponent, but also high-level skills such as devising a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a robot that can rival top human table tennis for speed and precision. The robot, designed by engineers in MIT's ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Humans have firmly retained their lead over robots at table tennis ...

Omron’s table tennis robot is getting smarter. At this week’s Ceatec electronics show in Japan, the company has unveiled a new version that uses machine learning to assess the strength of an opponent ...