Recorded on January 8, 2018. TechCrunch’s Tito Hamze played Ping Pong against Omron’s demonstration Ping Pong Robot. The Robot was good but no match for Tito’s charm and good looks.

There were dozens of robots at CES, and many of them were the kinds with human features -- faces, arms, legs and even personalities. Some of them, such as a giant machine that can play table tennis ...

Guinness World Records has recognized a robot with a unique ability: a machine called FORPHEUS is officially the "first robot table tennis tutor." The contraption, which holds a ping pong paddle and ...

Ping-pong seems to be the sport of choice when it comes to tech firms showcasing their robotic wares. Japanese firm Omron, for example, made headlines several years ago with its ping-pong robot that ...

With all the recent talk of AI posing existential risks to humanity and our privacy, Japanese company Omron is taking a softer, more innocuous approach. Specifically, with its table tennis robot ...

Time lapse photos show a new ping-pong-playing robot performing a top spin. The robot quickly estimates the speed and trajectory of an incoming ball and precisely hits it to a desired location on the ...