Yesterday we saw a homemade ping pong playing robot that someone made in their garage, and now the KUKA Robot has taken on ping pong champion Timo Boll. The video below shows Timo Boll go head to head ...

Jeopardy! had Watson and chess had Deep Blue, so it was time for ping-pong to face a formidable opponent in technological form. The incredibly quick KUKA robot, normally used in manufacturing, squared ...

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Kuka vs. Boll will take place on March 11 to celebrate the opening of Kuka's first ever plant in Shanghai. The new 20,000 square-meter (215,300 sq ft) operation will produce Kuka's KR Quantec series ...

Last month Extra Mustard previewed a match that was set to take place between table tennis star Timo Boll and a robot. Well, we are happy to report that Boll Last month Extra Mustard previewed a match ...

Yesterday, March 11, a Chinese robotic company hosted the first ever man versus robot table tennis match in Sofia, Bulgaria. Playing for the humans was Timo Boll, a former No. 1 table tennis champ ...

When robot maker Kuka announced that it would be pitting its Agilus robot against table tennis star Timo Boll last month, we expected a fair fight. Conditioned professional human athlete against a ...

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 ...

In just over 20 days, the German ping pong champion is set to go head-to-head against the awesome might of the KUKA Robotics industrial robot in a man vs machine ping pong competition. The battle of ...

The war between man and machine has officially reached the sports arena. On Tuesday, KUKA robotics released a YouTube video of a table tennis match between former world No. 1 Timo Boll and KUKA’s own ...

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 ...