Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and ...

Most tennis ball machines are glorified pitching devices: they send balls over the net, but they don’t feel anything like playing against a real opponent. That’s why the Acemate Tennis Robot, which ...

If you’ve ever tried to get back into a sport you were halfway decent at in school, you’ll know the soul-crushing reality of muscle memory giving you the middle finger. It’s a reality I’ve found ...

The sports tech sector at CES has historically focused on wearables, but in Las Vegas this week, Pongbot is proving that the equipment itself is ready to wake up. Making its official CES debut, the ...

New research suggests brains require more cognitive effort to play table tennis with a robotic ball machine than against a human. Researchers studying people playing table tennis have found that their ...

China is currently busy accumulating most of the gold medals in the table tennis events in the Paris Olympics. Meanwhile, an AI-powered robot from Google DeepMind has achieved “amateur human level ...

LAS VEGAS, United States — AI took over CES 2026, powering coffee machines to brew the perfect espresso, a device to create your perfect scent, and ball-hitting tennis robots that make you forget it's ...