What were you doing when you were 15 years old? Maybe getting your driver’s permit? Or finding the guts to ask out that crush of yours? Or thinking about a way to build a giant ping pong-ball machine ...

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.

Imagine a ping-pong ball travelling at speeds greater than a supersonic F-16 jet screaming across the sky. Now all it takes is some sticky tape. In a demonstration that Blue Peter presenters would be ...

Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MORE by Kurt Schlosser on Jan 12, 2018 at 12:03 pm January 12, 2018 at 1:09 ...

Watson v. Ken Jennings. Deep Blue v. Kasparov. Like those man against machine battles, the KUKA robot v. Timo Boll match for ping pong supremacy could have been a referendum on how far the robots have ...

This ping pong bot is so good it doesn’t even need to watch the ball, it just—OH MY GOD IT’S EYEING THE CHILD. This advertisement for Omron Automation & Safety spends the majority of its one-minute ...

Bouncing a ping-pong ball on a paddle isn’t terribly challenging for someone with even a modicum of hand-eye coordination, but what if you were blindfolded and had to only rely on your ears? That ...

Watson v. Ken Jennings. Deep Blue v. Kasparov. Like those man against machine battles, the KUKA robot v. Timo Boll match for ping pong supremacy could have been a referendum on how far the robots have ...