Hardly a day goes by without impressive new robotic platforms emerging from academic labs and commercial startups worldwide. Humanoid robots in particular look increasingly capable of assisting us in ...

UC Berkeley recently released a video demonstrating its latest creation, the Humanoid Table TEnnis Robot (HITTER), playing a ...

In the most basic terms, the Infinity Smart Table Tennis Training Robot is like one of those ball-firing machines used by tennis players or in baseball batting cages. It fires out balls at a rate of ...

Ping pong is a two (or four) player game, but if you need to practice alone then a robot server can help. Though basic cheap models are available, more advanced features can come with a pretty high ...

A table tennis-playing robot can keep up a rally against humans, but like many amateur players, it struggles when attempting fancier shots. The researchers ran this simulation so that a machine ...

If your hobbies aren’t generating data these days, do you even have any? Sports take center stage in many other aspects of modern life, except maybe when it comes to the Internet of Things — barring ...

In certain countries, a table tennis champion like Yiyong Fan is a national hero who lives the good life. But in the United States, where pingpong is thought of as basement recreation rather than ...