As we all know, robots can do practically anything, and it all depends on the creativity of the humans who design them.
Today I am going to discuss the case of a robot that plays ping pong with a certain ability to beat more or less beginner players, although I am very clear that it is only a matter of time before it is able to beat any human.
The robot has been presented by the company Deep Mind, which is an expert in Artificial Intelligence, and they have used a standard robot from the company ABB (the ABB Model IBR 1100), to which they have added the possibility of being able to move quickly horizontally to be able to hit the ping pong ball along the playing field.
Using AI tools, the robot has learned to manipulate the racket to hit the ping pong ball in the most appropriate way to return the return to the opponent.
To learn, the robot has played with a few low and medium level players, and in a very short time it has been able to beat the low level players.
You can see a very interesting video at: https://youtu.be/EqQl-JQxToE
You can also see that as the games go by, the robot learns and improves its game, and throws the balls to the sides to try to score a point.
I have to admit that I love the world of robotics, and it is clear that AI has come to be an important help to improve the world of robots.
I think that in not too long we will see that a robot is the new world champion of ping pong. Things of Technology.
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