On the robot side we had the Chinese company Kuka’s Agilus robotic arm. Kuka’s website lists 17 possible functions for the 114-pound, six-axis robot, including assembly, packaging and forging ...

On the early evening of June 22, 2010, American tennis star John Isner began a grueling Wimbledon match against Frenchman Nicolas Mahut that would become the longest in the sports ...

China kicked off the three-day long World Humanoid Robot Games on Friday, looking to showcase its advances in artificial ...

A team at Google has spent a lot of time recently playing table tennis, purportedly only for science. Their goal was to see whether they could construct a robot which would not only play table tenn… ...

Italian researchers have decided enlisted the help of a robot assistant that can learn how to help build IKEA furniture without pre-programming movements.

The robot was tested with a range of players from a local table tennis club which made clear that while it could easily defeat beginners, intermediate players pose a serious threat.

Computer science researchers aim to teach robots how to predict human preferences in assembly tasks, so they can one day help out on everything from building a satellite to setting a table.

The relatively slim robots can be table or ceiling mounted. They both include absolute encoders and are controlled by IQ200 control systems, the common control platform for all Bosch Rexroth robots.

Typically those machines are used for product assembly, loading and unloading, and even painting, but in this case it will be trading volleys over a standard ping pong table.