Watch Sony’s elite ping-pong robot beat top-ranked players

Humans have been building ping-pong playing robots for decades, such as Omron’s FORPHEUS that challenged amateur competitors at CES 2017. What sets Ace apart from the rest is that the robot, which was developed by Sony’s AI division, is the first that can hold its own against top-ranked human players and occasionally even beat them in matches that follow the official rules of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). Watch Sony’s elite ping-pong robot beat top-ranked players Ace is an AI-powered articulated robot that uses 12 cameras to compete against top table tennis players. Ace is an AI-powered articulated robot that uses 12 cameras to compete against top table tennis players. AI is already capable of besting humans at games like Chess and Go, but physical games pose a much greater challenge as robots have to be engineered to match…