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At Google DeepMind, two robotic arms play endless table tennis matches as part of a project to help robots learn real-world skills.
Table tennis robot vs human match outcomes. B is beginner, I is intermediate, A is advanced. (Credit: Google) In the end, it took twenty motion-capture cameras, a pair of 125 FPS cameras, a 6 DOF ...
On the early evening of June 22, 2010, American tennis star John Isner began a grueling Wimbledon match against Frenchman ...
OMRON Corporation has made further advancements in its table tennis robot, FORPHEUS, which the company continues to develop further each year to showcase in an easy-to-understand manner the ...
The authors express their deepest appreciation to the Google DeepMind Robotics team and in particular David B. D’Ambrosio, Saminda Abeyruwan, Laura Graesser, Atil Iscen, Alex Bewley and Krista Reymann ...
Google's DeepMind has shown off an AI-powered robot that can beat the average player at a game of table tennis. According to an announcement by the company on X-formerly-Twitter, "it’s the first ...
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 ...
German robotics manufacturer Kuka has arranged a table tennis contest between one of its robots and former world number one Timo Boll. The showdown will take place on March 11.
With the French Open behind us, and Wimbledon weeks away, it’s time to get serious about your forehand. Which means you’ll need to live and breathe all things tennis starting now. Table tennis can’t ...
The Kyoto, Japan-based corporation, Omron, first debuted its table tennis robot in 2013. Last week, Omron announced FORPHEUS has officially been named the world’s “First Robot Table Tennis ...