Designed by Shashwat Batish, ALANA is a life-size robot with movable arms powered by custom servo ... and dexterity by manipulating objects on a table on its own. ALANA can recognize and react ...

But humans have physical limitations in abundance—why should robots co-opt those limitations? For instance, why not allow a robot's hand to pop off its arm ... tethered to a table, and a ...

The contraption is equipped with two robot arms on each side of the table and will sit right at ... If you're wondering what crossed my mind at this point—about Aescape potentially collecting ...

Researchers managed to get a robotic arm wielding a 3D-printed paddle to win 13 of 29 games against human opponents of varying abilities in full games of competitive table tennis. The research was ...

In a new paper titled “Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis,” the team said ... that combines AI and an industrial robotic arm — with a bat attached. A video (top) shows ...

Table tennis has played a key role in benchmarking robot arms since a decade prior. The sport requires speed, responsiveness and strategy, among other things. In a newly published paper titled ...