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.

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 in the journal Nature that

Do you think you could beat a robot at table tennis? An AI-powered robot named Ace has just beaten elite players at the sport in Tokyo. The feat has been hailed as a milestone and a true test for robotics,

"Table tennis is a game of enormous complexity that requires split-second decisions as well as speed and power," Peter Dürr, director of Sony AI in Zurich and project lead for Ac

An AI-powered robot outplayed elite table tennis players and has been hailed as a milestone in robotics.The Sony AI robot, named Ace, won a whopping three out of five matches against the players.

If you're primed to fear AI-driven robots replacing human workers at complex physical tasks, consider this your trigger warning. A robot arm built by Sony, and named Ace, has just been dubbed "the first autonomous system to be competitive with elite human table tennis players.

Sony AI’s Ace robot can now compete with and sometimes beat elite table tennis players, a milestone for real-world robotics and fast physical AI.

Humans have been building ping-pong playing robots for decades, such as Omron’s FOREPHUS that challenged amateur competitors at CES 2017. What sets Ace apart from the rest is that the robot, which was developed by Sony’s AI division,