A new AI system called LATENT helps a humanoid robot react faster on the tennis court by learning from imperfect human motion ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a robot that can play table tennis with the skill and flair of a human player. The robot smashes returns at ...

Roboticists have struggled to get humanoid robots to effectively replicate athletic sports skills, such as those needed for ...

This ain't teleoperation. Chinese researchers have tested a new, much quicker and easier method of teaching robots to play ...

Sports have long served as an important test for robots. The best-known example of the phenomenon may be the annual RoboCup soccer competition, which dates back to the mid-1990s. Table tennis has ...

Using heaps of data, Google trained a table-tennis-playing robot to take on human competitors and get better as it did so. The results were impressive and represent a leap forward in robotic speed and ...

Researchers in China have developed a new system that significantly improves how humanoid robots ...

Google DeepMind has developed a robotic system capable of achieving amateur human-level performance in table tennis. This breakthrough highlights advancements in transferring skills learned in ...