Table Tennis or Ping-Pong? No matter how the game is referenced or how seriously it is taken, there is now a robot designed to help players improve their skills.

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 ...

It may seem silly, but solving these kinds of robot training problems with table tennis has potential real-world applications.

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 ...

The robot was tested with a range of players from a local table tennis club which made clear that while it could easily defeat beginners, intermediate players pose a serious threat.

MIT engineers developed a ping-pong-playing robot that quickly estimates the speed and trajectory of an incoming ball and precisely hits it to a desired location on the table.

A Ping-Pong-playing robot has just earned official recognition from Guinness World Records for its ability to play and teach the game.

But tragically, it's too late for me now. I have good reason to believe in my ping pong skills, thanks to Forpheus, a robot I met this week at CES in Las Vegas.

Left with no practice partner last year, the tech-savvy paddler used a ping pong robot he had imported from Germany and finally booked his Tokyo spot in March. "It can fire around 120 balls per ...

FORPHEUS, named the "first robot table tennis tutor" for its ability to play and teach the sport, has earned a Guinness World Record for its tutoring skills.