Mar 14, 2014
Robots Playing Ping Pong: What’s Real, and What’s Not?
Posted by Seb in category: robotics/AI
By Evan Ackerman — IEEE Spectrum
Really, Kuka? You got us all excited for this match between one of your cool new robots and a world champion table tennis player. We were thinking to ourselves, “Wow, Kuka wouldn’t have set this whole thing up unless it was actually going to be a good match! Maybe we’ll see some amazing feats of high speed robot arms, vision systems, and motion tracking!”