AI table tennis robot can beat elite players, says Sony
News Source : The Punch
News Summary
- A team from the Japanese company built an AI-powered robotic arm clutching a ping-pong paddle that can perceive, react to, and return the “blistering speed and spin of elite-level table tennis” “Ace” is a bulky industrial robot as big as a table tennis table, but it is able to make split-second decisions and execute agile movements with power.
- Previous table tennis-playing robots could hold rallies but never went beyond the amateur level.
Robots can run a halfmarathon, box, and now beat elite human table tennis players, Sonys artificial intelligence unit said in research published on Thursday.A team from the Japanese company built [+1508 chars]
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