Would you like to play a robot in ping pong (translated)? We sure would. Inspired by an upcoming face-off between man and machine, [Jakob] wrote in to tell us about [Ulf Hoffmann’s] ping-pong ...

Japanese firm Omron, for example, made headlines several years ago with its ping pong robot that could comfortably sustain a rally with a human player, showing off the firm’s sensor and control ...