Google’s DeepMind Robotics has developed a table tennis robot that competes, learns and adapts, making it an interesting player in the world of sports technology.

Google's DeepMind has shown off an AI-powered robot that can beat the average Joe player at a game of table tennis.

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 ...

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 ...

A robot developed by Google DeepMind has a nearly 50/50 chance at winning in table tennis.

I always asked for a ping-pong table each Christmas, but my dad had a pretty good counter-argument: "You're an only child. Who's going to play with you?" ...

Despite decades of progress, most robots are still programmed for specific, repetitive tasks. They struggle with the unexpected and can't adapt to new situations without painstaking reprogramming. But ...