"Table tennis blurs the lines between these control issues with adaptiveness and precision required as more information about an incoming ball becomes available," David Nguyen, co-author of the ...

Serial Guinness World Record-breaker David Rush put his juggling skills to the test to break the record for the fastest time to make 10 alternating hits of a table tennis ball on bottle caps.

By the final round, the AI had learned from over 14,000 rally balls and 3,000 serves, creating a body of table tennis knowledge that helped it bridge the gap between simulation and reality.