A team at Google has spent a lot of time recently playing table tennis, purportedly only for science. Their goal was to see whether they could construct a robot which would not only play table tennis, ...

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-generation ...

TL;DR: Apple is developing a robot with lifelike movements, resembling a desk lamp, capable of interacting with users through gestures and tasks like providing lighting for photography or projecting ...

The young developer Xander Naumenko has built a table soccer robot called Foosbar that can pass, block and shoot faster than a human player. Naumenko essentially uses computer vision with infrared ...

Need to hone up your ping pong skills? Nobody to play with? That’s okay, you could always build a hard drive powered ping pong ball launcher! [Vendel Miskei] must like 3D modeling. He’s drawn up his ...

We're back for a rematch. The ping-pong robot has had an upgrade or two, and in Rocky-style, your rival is now your trainer. Yep, the newest demo from Omron (a company better know for its healthcare ...