This AI robot will strengthen your ping-pong skillsWith 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, or with its table tennis robot Forpheus,which strives to pursue “harmony of humans and machines” by patiently teaching us how to play ping-pong.
Although ping-pong ball-pitching machines like TrainerBot exist, Forpheus can actually live up to the feeling of playing against a real opponent.
It uses a robotic arm that is controlled by the AI through a 5-axis motor system to swing the paddle. The motion controller, and the “brain,” tells the machine how to hit the ball, advising it on timing and direction within a 1, or 000th of a moment. Read More
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