But now, a new AI-driven robot built by Sony, named Ace, has officially defeated elite human table tennis players. Look beyond the publicity stunt, for this is a radical shift. Machines are finally ...

The robot learned how to play the sport using the AI method known as reinforcement learning.

A paddle-wielding robot is so adept at playing table tennis that it is posing a tough challenge to elite human players and ...

Sony’s AI robot Ace defeated top table tennis players in a milestone that could reshape the future of robotics and sports ...

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 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the start of this week, a robot beat human runners in a half-marathon in Beijing. Now, another one can apparently outplay table ...

An autonomous robot ping-pong player dubbed Ace has achieved a milestone for AI and robotics in Tokyo by competing against ...

On the heels of an AI-powered humanoid robot setting the world record in the half-marathon, a study reveals that AI robots have defeated elite players in table tennis.