For $2,300 you could probably pay someone to lob ping pong balls at you all day, but we have a feeling thatit's going to be the table tennis pros who end up investing in a Butterfly Amicus 3000 Robot.

MIT engineers are getting in on the robotic ping pong game with a powerful, lightweight design that returns shots with high-speed precision. The new table tennis bot includes a multijointed robotic ...

If you're still unsure if robots really are taking over, CES 2018 serves as a good reminder that our future is both robot-flled and mildly terrifying. But if our future really is a robot dystopia, at ...

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I always asked for a ping-pong table each Christmas, but my dad had a pretty good counter-argument: “You’re an only child. Who’s going to play with you?” Sad, but true. Which is why I always got socks ...

Guinness World Records has recognized a robot with a unique ability: a machine called FORPHEUS is officially the “first robot table tennis tutor.” The contraption, which holds a ping pong paddle and ...

Hardware manufacturer OMRON has this week unveiled a new ping-pong robot which is being created to enable table tennis players to improve their gameplay without the need to play against the partner.

Chiba, Japan—To be honest, the Umron ping pong playing robot can barely hold its own on the table. But it could be far handier in a work environment. The robot—being shown off at the CEATEC trade show ...

Well — you guys were right. As it turns out, it was actually a pair of animators who fooled the internet. The movements seemed unnatural for the size of the servos and arm structure. ~ James CGI. As ...

Guinness World Records has recognized a robot with a unique ability: a machine called FORPHEUS is officially the “first robot table tennis tutor.” The contraption, which holds a ping pong paddle and ...