OMRON Corporation has made further advancements in its table tennis robot, FORPHEUS, which the company continues to develop further each year to showcase in an easy-to-understand manner the evolution ...

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, ...

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 ...

Miwa Harimoto recently had her skills tested by a robot called FORPHEUS at the Semicon Japan last week. The Olympic table tennis player said she was impressed and struggled to keep pace with her rival ...

Read about the latest sports tech news, innovations, ideas and products that impact players, fans and the sports industry at SportTechie.com. Table Tennis or Ping-Pong? No matter how the game is ...

With the French Open behind us, and Wimbledon weeks away, it’s time to get serious about your forehand. Which means you’ll need to live and breathe all things tennis starting now. Table tennis can’t ...

In the most basic terms, the Infinity Smart Table Tennis Training Robot is like one of those ball-firing machines used by tennis players or in baseball batting cages. It fires out balls at a rate of ...

Agilus the robot has balls – albeit of the Ping-Pong variety – as next month it’ll go up against German table tennis pro Timo Boll in a potentially dramatic man-against-machine sports-based face-off.

It provides a benchmark of how far the robots we design have come, and, of course, a sense of how long it might be before they rise up and make us redundant. Carrying on that tradition, German ...

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 ...