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 ...

Open source language models are crucial to AI innovation. Can open robotics models do the same for physical machines?

I remember us blogging about baseball-playing robots a few times in the past, but table tennis-playing models aren’t really common. A team of researchers around Prof. Kidode at the Nara Institute of ...

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 ...

It's CEATEC, so I knew OMRON would once again bring out its massive table tennis robot to belittle us humans, but what I didn't expect was a significant performance jump this time. FORPHEUS, now at ...

Healthcare electronics maker Omron is showing off its sensing know-how with a huge ping pong-playing robot, but the robot is still easy to beat—for now. The 2.7-meter-tall, three-legged beast looked ...