MIT engineers are getting in on the robotic ping pong game with a powerful, lightweight design that returns shots with ...

Most robotic arms are either very good at slow, careful movements, like picking up objects, or rapid movements like running. Ping pong, however, demands both precision and speed. Nguyen explains that ...

Table tennis is a perfect example of the latter ... That’s the ping pong dream right there: putting so much spin on the ball that it actually bounces over the net the other way.

Forpheus said, “It appears that you are an experienced table tennis player.” That drew laughter from the audience. The robot said faster balls would ... with greater spin would allow Forpheus ...

The snake is Adam Bobrow’s weapon of mass destruction. Against his opponents, some of them amateurs and some professional, he uses it to devastating effect, leaving them dumbfounded. Adam is not ...

A competitive game of table tennis is played to the best of five or seven games. The first player to get to 11 points in a game is the winner. However, if a game is tied at 10-10, a player must ...