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 ...

This grim vision of the future where robots win gold and humans ... to bed this week though, when world table tennis champion Boll took on a packing arm. The clash, which looks to have been ...

Playing for the humans was Timo Boll, a former No. 1 table tennis champ from Germany. On the robot side we had the Chinese company Kuka's Agilus robotic arm. Kuka's website lists 17 possible ...

Once this algorithm, which learns by trial and error, could reliably return the ball, the researchers set it up to control the movement of a real robot arm positioned next to a real table (pictured).

I remember us blogging about baseball-playing robots a few times in the past, but table tennis-playing models ... a computer and (obviously) arms with which it swings a racket.