[ExI] Google robot learns to play table-tennis as good as humans

[Keith Henson]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24955651

"Reminds me of an incident I read about in Hackers by Steven Levy,
where a ball-catching robot in the MIT AI Lab (in the 60s or 70s)
mistook Prof. Marvin Minsky's bald head for a ping-pong ball."

Best wishes,

Keith

On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 3:40 PM BillK via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> Video: Google robot paddles human table tennis competitors
> By Michael Franco     August 12, 2024
>
> <https://newatlas.com/robotics/google-robot-tennis/>
>
> Quotes:
> Using heaps of data, Google trained a table-tennis-playing robot to
> take on human competitors and get better as it did so. The results
> were impressive and represent a leap forward in robotic speed and
> dexterity. It also looks really fun.
> "Achieving human-level speed and performance on real world tasks is a
> north star for the robotics research community."
> ----------------------------
>
> The article includes a 25-minute games video and a 2-minute highlights video.
> Impressive robot speed! Only advanced players could beat it.
>
> BillK
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