Everyone who’s afraid that the world is going to be taken over by robots can breathe a sigh of relief. Rush Holt beat Watson at Jeopardy and now man has beaten robot at ping pong.
Kuka, a Chinese industrial robotics company, created a ping pong playing robot to compete against German Table Tennis champion Timo Boll. And man won.
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