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 ...

Tokyo-based Jizai, Inc., has officially unveiled its customizable General-Purpose AI robot called “Mi-Mo” at this year’s ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...