A robot that plays table tennis put Olympian Miwa Harimoto through her paces at a demonstration event organized by the ...

BEIJING--China kicked off a three-day long sports showcase for humanoid robots on Friday, looking to highlight progress in ...

In modern sports, improvement no longer depends solely on access to a coach or training partner. Advances in sports technology are rapidly changing how athletes practice, analyze performance, and ...

A paddle-wielding robot is so adept at playing table tennis that it is posing a tough challenge to elite human players and sometimes defeating them, according to a new study that shows how advances in ...

A table tennis robot built by Sony maneuvers to hit the ball back to human opponent Akito Saeki during a match in Tokyo. (Sony AI via AP) A few days ago came the astonishing news that the world record ...

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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 ...