To start things off, Google DeepMind built a database of all the initial states a table tennis ball could have, such as position, speed and spin. From here, the robot arm just practised various ...

[Steffan] was standing behind the table hitting the ball — they just erased him and animated in a robot. As for the off-putting “servo” noises? They were actually made by turning a ...

A robot that plays table tennis put Olympian Miwa Harimoto through her paces at a demonstration event organized by the semiconductor industry in Tokyo. Developed by Omron Corp., the ninth ...