Over the past decades, roboticists have introduced various systems that can replicate specific human motions and behaviors ...

In real-world testing, engineers launched 150 balls at the robot in rapid succession. The bot returned nearly 88 percent of ...

While an expert human player can still defeat the bot, the system demonstrates the potential for machines ... 14,000 rally balls and 3,000 serves, creating a body of table tennis knowledge that ...

A robotics firm focused on training sporting professionals has unveiled an AI-powered robotic tennis coach designed to transform training for players of all levels. T-Apex’s Tenniix module is ...

Studnicki and her advisor, Daniel Ferris, discovered that the brains of table tennis players react very differently to human or machine opponents. Faced with the inscrutability of a ball machine ...

The robot was physically incapable of serving the ball, thus the humans and robot played three games under modified versions of regular table tennis regulations. The robot won 46 percent of games ...

Engineers have pitted machines against humans in countless ... engineers first compiled a large dataset of “initial table tennis ball states” including information on positionality, spin ...

Once the technology was in place, it took only six months to apply it to a ball machine that works for tennis, pickleball and padel. Both devices sync with a small device (the Station) affixed to ...

The concept of spin has an even more pronounced effect in table tennis, where players use gripping rubber-coated paddles to strike a light, hollow ball over a hard surface. In ball games ...