Next World Champion in TT - A Robot!!!

I hope I can beat the nigerian guy I played last week in Vegas till 2050...haha.
He's a hell fast!

The robot is amazing. I must say that I'm very surprised. Does human technology has a limit?

Dan said:

Not to sure, but i read once that they think the micro chip will stop getting smaller by 2017... but who knows a,, bloody cool contraption in the video!! heres the robot playing

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A freaking computer (2 MHz processor, 4 Kb ram) can send man to the moon and we can't even program a bot to motion track and whack a white ball ? no, it has nothing to do with die size of the chip or motor response whatsoever. Its just the lack of attention of this sport. List me one benefit of making a killer ping pong bot that nobody can beat, besides just a proof of concept

peter said:

A freaking computer (2 MHz processor, 4 Kb ram) can send man to the moon and we can't even program a bot to motion track and whack a white ball ? no, it has nothing to do with die size of the chip or motor response whatsoever. Its just the lack of attention of this sport. List me one benefit of making a killer ping pong bot that nobody can beat, besides just a proof of concept

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But remember when you first started playing table tennis how hard it was to keep the ball on the bat for longer then 10 bounches and then it would fall off due to the side spin etc..... This robot has mastered to keep going simultaneously...

how soon would you like to see a robot that can think faster than you, with far superior mobility than you, ability to MOVE around faster than you, able to grab an object and utilize it the best way possible, AND ability to think for itself ?

I think is will take a lot more of time than fourty years that robots can beat professionals. How can they see the the spin? what if they are meeting someone with pimples?

hwhehehheheheh..
wow .. nice one ...

i would love to see a robot break down in an final

can it say sorry after a lucky shot?

can it plays as a chopper?

A major benefit for a revolutionary idea like this would mean that players (when/if it is made to an advanced level) would save vasts amount of money and time (2 major resources) because a player would just be able to continually practice with a robot for as long as they wanted that is constantly better than the player. I mean think of it this way it would be the ultimate training partner, often at table tennis clubs players who are better than others do not want to train with players of a lesser standard as the training for the better players would not be as beneficial, but for the worse player it is much more beneficial and with a robot the lower standard player can train whenever they want with a better opponent as obviously a robot can't think so they won't care playing with someone worse than them. Also it would save players constant financial investment into coaches and travel costs as they would just buy a robot saving them a lot of money, in some cases vast amounts of money as some players spend millions!!!

A major benefit for a revolutionary idea like this would mean that players (when/if it is made to an advanced level) would save vasts amount of money and time (2 major resources) because a player would just be able to continually practice with a robot for as long as they wanted that is constantly better than the player. I mean think of it this way it would be the ultimate training partner, often at table tennis clubs players who are better than others do not want to train with players of a lesser standard as the training for the better players would not be as beneficial, but for the worse player it is much more beneficial and with a robot the lower standard player can train whenever they want with a better opponent as obviously a robot can't think so they won't care playing with someone worse than them. Also it would save players constant financial investment into coaches and travel costs as they would just buy a robot saving them a lot of money, in some cases vast amounts of money as some players spend millions!!

Oh is this possible, what amazing robot...!!!