Meet Alex, a humanoid robot designed to replace ping pong playing Nadia. The new robot created by IHMC in downtown Pensacola ...

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) - For someone who lost a season to a nagging elbow injury that needed surgery, Indian javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra understandably welcomed the postponement of the Tokyo ...

As if it weren't enough to have AI tanning humanity's hide (figuratively for now) at every board game in existence, Google AI has got one working to destroy us all at Ping-Pong as well. For now they ...

Researchers at Stanford University have created an innovative humanoid robot called "HumanPlus" that can learn and perform a wide range of tasks by observing human actions. This breakthrough in ...

There were dozens of robots at CES, and many of them were the kinds with human features -- faces, arms, legs and even personalities. Some of them, such as a giant machine that can play table tennis ...

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People define their own fun. For Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, it seems like it's amusing to go to a conference and commune with robots. On Monday at the company's MARS conference in Palm Springs, California ...

Practice makes perfect. But for a collaborative sport like ping pong, it’s not always easy to find the perfect partner. Brothers, Alexander and Harrison Chen, solved this problem by building the ...

Healthcare electronics maker Omron is showing off its sensing know-how with a huge ping pong-playing robot, but the robot is still easy to beat—for now. The 2.7-meter-tall, three-legged beast looked ...

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 ...