Engineers developed a ping-pong-playing robot that quickly estimates the speed and trajectory of an incoming ball and precisely hits it to a desired location on the table. MIT engineers are getting in ...

Oakland A's catcher Jhonny Pereda is one of many pro athletes who plays ping-pong. Illustration: Dan Goldfarb / The Athletic; Justine Willard / Athletics / Getty Images This story is part of Peak, The ...

There were no idle hands at Sharpa's CES booth. The company's humanoid may have been the busiest bot at show, autonomously playing ping-pong, dealing blackjack games and taking selfies with passersby.

At CES 2026, Singapore-based company Sharpa has redefined general-purpose robotics with the debut of its first autonomous humanoid. Named North, the robot has been designed to showcase that autonomous ...

In the 1940s and '50s, New York City table tennis was a gritty subculture full of misfits, gamblers, doctors, actors, students and more. They competed, bet on the game or both at all-night spots like ...

Long before Timothée Chalamet starred in “Marty Supreme” — the hotly anticipated movie that hits theaters nationwide on Christmas Day — there was Marty “The Needle” Reisman, the wild-eyed, high-strung ...

A website that pays licensing fees to President Donald Trump is selling merchandise bearing the official presidential seal—including a $150 record player and $20 beer pong set with “Presidential ...

For Tripp Roche, the most inspiring thing at his family’s restaurant isn’t the homemade pizza or lasagna. It’s the ping pong table upstairs. The hidden gem at Villa Tronco, Columbia’s oldest ...

EXCLUSIVE: Hot Ones, the buzzy talk show involving chicken wings, is getting another spinoff. First We Feast, the company behind the Sean Evans-hosted series, is debuting Hot Ones: Wing Pong later ...

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What's the first game you ever played? Mine was Super Mario Advance 2, a bona fide banger and the only game I owned until around a year after I won a Game Boy Advance in a competition, much to my ...