It provides a benchmark of how far the robots we design have come, and, of course, a sense of how long it might be before they rise up and make us redundant. Carrying on that tradition, German ...

Agilus the robot has balls – albeit of the Ping-Pong variety – as next month it’ll go up against German table tennis pro Timo Boll in a potentially dramatic man-against-machine sports-based face-off.

After an anxious month’s wait, we finally get to see the ultimate showdown of man vs. machine on the only battleground that matters—table tennis. The results? Humans: 1, KUKA robot: 0. Our future ...

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 ...

Jeopardy! whiz Ken Jennings may have lost to a computer, but German table tennis champ Timo Boll tried to make sure everyone knows that man can still take down machine. The German robotics ...

Remember that scene in the last Matrix Revolutionswhen the machines breach the city of Zion and the human armies try to fend them off? Well that, except with Remember that scene in the last Matrix ...

A team at Google has spent a lot of time recently playing table tennis, purportedly only for science. Their goal was to see whether they could construct a robot which would not only play table tennis, ...

Last month Extra Mustard previewed a match that was set to take place between table tennis star Timo Boll and a robot. Well, we are happy to report that Boll actually took on the KUKA KR AGILUS -- ...

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 ...