For $2,300 you could probably pay someone to lob ping pong balls at you all day, but we have a feeling thatit's going to be the table tennis pros who end up investing in a Butterfly Amicus 3000 Robot.

MIT engineers are getting in on the robotic ping pong game with a powerful, lightweight design that returns shots with high-speed precision. The new table tennis bot includes a multijointed robotic ...

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There aren’t too many sports named for the sound that is produced during the game. Even though it’s properly referred to as “table tennis” by serious practitioners, ping pong is probably the most ...

I always asked for a ping-pong table each Christmas, but my dad had a pretty good counter-argument: “You’re an only child. Who’s going to play with you?” Sad, but true. Which is why I always got socks ...

If you’ve ever played ping pong, table tennis, or beer pong, you know that it’s a struggle to hang on to the balls. [MaximeMonsieur] has designed a robot to handle picking them up so you don’t have to ...

Practice makes perfect, and many types of sports offer ways for individuals to hone skills alone on their own time. But what if your game happens to be ping-pong? A team has developed a smart robot ...

Guinness World Records has recognized a robot with a unique ability: a machine called FORPHEUS is officially the “first robot table tennis tutor.” The contraption, which holds a ping pong paddle and ...