In just over 20 days, the German ping pong champion is set to go head-to-head against the awesome might of the KUKA Robotics industrial robot in a man vs machine ping pong competition. The battle of ...

Yesterday we saw a homemade ping pong playing robot that someone made in their garage, and now the KUKA Robot has taken on ping pong champion Timo Boll. The video below shows Timo Boll go head to head ...

The war between man and machine has officially reached the sports arena. On Tuesday, KUKA robotics released a YouTube video of a table tennis match between former world No. 1 Timo Boll and KUKA’s own ...

In a few weeks, man will face off in an epic battle against machine — in a game of ping pong. The showdown will take place during KUKA’s Shanghai Grand Opening festivities on March 11. “There will be ...

Jeopardy! had Watson and chess had Deep Blue, so it was time for ping-pong to face a formidable opponent in technological form. The incredibly quick KUKA robot, normally used in manufacturing, squared ...

Watson v. Ken Jennings. Deep Blue v. Kasparov. Like those man against machine battles, the KUKA robot v. Timo Boll match for ping pong supremacy could have been a referendum on how far the robots have ...

Since the dawn of robotics, man has been trying to build a robot that can play ping pong — sorry, table tennis. Don’t believe me? Check out all the robot ping pong videos on YouTube. The latest effort ...

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Everyone who’s afraid that the world is going to be taken over by robots can breathe a sigh of relief. Rush Holt beat Watson at Jeopardy and now man has beaten robot at ping pong. Kuka, a Chinese ...

When boats are launched for the first time, it’s customary to smash a bottle of champagne across the bow. But for industrial-robot maker Kuka, its new factory in southwestern Shanghai is being ...

Watson v. Ken Jennings. Deep Blue v. Kasparov. Like those man against machine battles, the KUKA robot v. Timo Boll match for ping pong supremacy could have been a referendum on how far the robots have ...