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 ...

A team at Google has spent a lot of time recently playing table tennis, purportedly only for science. Their goal was to see whether they could construct a robot which would not only play table tennis, ...

Here at New Atlas, we like to keep tabs on developments in the world of robotics – just so we're aware of how soon Terminator-style machines will assemble and march against the human race. As it turns ...

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 ...

There is also a dance studio, complete with a wood floor and large mirrors. Here scientists record the movements of human ...