Agilus the robot has balls – albeit of the Ping-Pong variety – as next month it’ll go up against German table tennis pro Timo Boll in a potentially dramatic man-against-machine sports-based face-off.

As if it weren't enough to have AI tanning humanity's hide (figuratively for now) at every board game in existence, Google AI has got one working to destroy us all at Ping-Pong as well. For now they ...

Named North, the robot has been designed to showcase that autonomous machines can now match human dexterity. Interestingly, ...

It's not exactly Skynet becoming self-aware, but it's another step toward robots taking over the world. Next month, an industrial robot is set to take on a champion ping pong player in Shanghai, China ...