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From DesignNews:
 If you've ever watched professional ping-pong
players on TV, you may have wondered if -- due to their rapid-fire pace
of play -- they were actually robots.
Well wonder, no more. A German research team created the first robot
that can not only play ping-pong like a human, but can also improve its
game by learning from its human opponents like the ones you've maybe
seen whizzing around the table in a blur.
The robot -- the brainchild of PhD candidate and robotic researcher
Katharina Muelling at the Technical University of Darmstadt -- consists
of a robotic arm to which a ping-pong paddle is attached, as well as a
camera that provides a view of the table and area of play.
Read more and check out the video here:
http://www.designnews.com/author.asp?section_id=1386&doc_id=253947&f_src=designnews_sitedefault&dfpPParams=ind_182,aid_253947&dfpLayout=blog
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