Yesterday we saw a homemade ping pong playing robot that someone made in their garage, and now the KUKA Robot has taken on ping pong champion Timo Boll. The video below shows Timo Boll go head to head ...

Jeopardy! had Watson and chess had Deep Blue, so it was time for ping-pong to face a formidable opponent in technological form. The incredibly quick KUKA robot, normally used in manufacturing, squared ...

The war between man and machine has officially reached the sports arena. On Tuesday, KUKA robotics released a YouTube video of a table tennis match between former world No. 1 Timo Boll and KUKA’s own ...

Well — you guys were right. As it turns out, it was actually a pair of animators who fooled the internet. The movements seemed unnatural for the size of the servos and arm structure. ~ James CGI. As ...

In just over 20 days, the German ping pong champion is set to go head-to-head against the awesome might of the KUKA Robotics industrial robot in a man vs machine ping pong competition. The battle of ...

Everyone who’s afraid that the world is going to be taken over by robots can breathe a sigh of relief. Rush Holt beat Watson at Jeopardy and now man has beaten robot at ping pong. Kuka, a Chinese ...

The highly awaited ping pong match between former champion Timo Boll and KUKA’s AGILUS robot has finally taken place. But after watching the video, it’s blatantly obvious the whole thing was staged. I ...

If you’re looking for a vaguely frightening realization of just how good robots are getting at activities that require a high degree of optical precisions and fine motor control, than the video above ...

Since the dawn of robotics, man has been trying to build a robot that can play ping pong — sorry, table tennis. Don’t believe me? Check out all the robot ping pong videos on YouTube. The latest effort ...

Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MORE by John Cook on Mar 11, 2014 at 7:45 pm April 10, 2017 at 9:12 am As ...

A one-armed robot plays a friendly game of ping-pong against German table tennis champ Timo Boll. So who won, man or machine? In an epic battle of man-versus-machine ping-pong, man ultimately prevails ...

Earlier in the year, Kuka Robotics made a big fuss about its ping-pong playing robot facing up against professional player Timo Boll. Sadly, the promised match turned out to be just an advert and the ...