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An AI-powered robot has beaten elite players at table tennis in a significant achievement for a machine faced with human athletes in a real-world competitive sport.
Named Ace, the robotic system developed by Sony AI, won three out of five matches against elite players, but lost the two it played against professionals, clawing back only one game in the seven contests.
The feat has been hailed as a milestone for robotics, a field that has long seen table tennis – and the lightning-fast reactions, perception and skill it demands – as one of the toughest tests of how far the technology has advanced.
In the matches, played under official competition rules, Ace displayed a mastery of spin, handled difficult shots, such as balls catching on the net, and pulled off one rapid backspin shot that a professional had thought impossible.
A research paper on the robot was published in Nature on Wednesday, but scientists working on the project said Ace had improved since the report was submitted. “We played stronger and stronger players and we beat stronger and stronger players,” said Peter Dürr, the director of Sony AI in Zurich and project lead for Ace.
AI researchers use games from chess and go, to poker and Breakout to teach programs on how to make decisions in complex situations. Building an intelligent robot takes the challenge to the next level by requiring the machine to enact decisions effectively.
Ace sidesteps some tricky aspects of table tennis by having an eight-jointed arm on a movable base that does not have to stand on two legs. And instead of seeing the ball with two eyes, it draws on images from multiple cameras that view the entire court from different angles and track the position and spin of the ball.
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comrade stalin
moscow
An AI-powered robot has beaten elite players at table tennis in a significant achievement for a machine faced with human athletes in a real-world competitive sport.
Named Ace, the robotic system developed by Sony AI, won three out of five matches against elite players, but lost the two it played against professionals, clawing back only one game in the seven contests.
The feat has been hailed as a milestone for robotics, a field that has long seen table tennis – and the lightning-fast reactions, perception and skill it demands – as one of the toughest tests of how far the technology has advanced.
In the matches, played under official competition rules, Ace displayed a mastery of spin, handled difficult shots, such as balls catching on the net, and pulled off one rapid backspin shot that a professional had thought impossible.
A research paper on the robot was published in Nature on Wednesday, but scientists working on the project said Ace had improved since the report was submitted. “We played stronger and stronger players and we beat stronger and stronger players,” said Peter Dürr, the director of Sony AI in Zurich and project lead for Ace.
AI researchers use games from chess and go, to poker and Breakout to teach programs on how to make decisions in complex situations. Building an intelligent robot takes the challenge to the next level by requiring the machine to enact decisions effectively.
Ace sidesteps some tricky aspects of table tennis by having an eight-jointed arm on a movable base that does not have to stand on two legs. And instead of seeing the ball with two eyes, it draws on images from multiple cameras that view the entire court from different angles and track the position and spin of the ball.
AI-powered robot beats elite table tennis players
In feat hailed as milestone in robotics, Sony AI’s Ace wins three out of five matches played under official rules
comrade stalin
moscow
