(Image credit: Google DeepMind) Mention AI and robots to most people and they’ll typically think of end-of-world scenarios, involving lasers and glowing red eyes. Not so Google DeepMind who’ve made a big step forward in robotic AI technology by training a system to beat the average person at table tennis, rather than the global eradication of humanity. Footage of the robot in action was posted on X by Google DeepMind and as someone who has some experience of programming robot arms, albeit in a limited manufacturing engineering capacity, I was really impressed by what I saw, and the study’s research paper is well worth reading. It’s more than just a camera keeping track of the ball and then motors wildly swinging a paddle about. To start things off, Google […]
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