A team of researchers from ASU and Google’s artificial intelligence laboratory known as DeepMind have developed a robot capable of playing table tennis.
This robot receives text-based instructions and combines it with artificial intelligence to adapt and get better at playing the game with actual humans. Despite limitations against playing advanced players who can handle more complex plays, the robot beat half of the amateur players it went up against.
Heni Ben Amor is an ASU computer science and engineering professor. He helped create this AI athlete.
“Really, the most important goal is to fill a knowledge gap, namely how to create robots that are more autonomous than the kinds of robots that we see nowadays in industry," he said.
Ben Amor says advancements in robotic technology could help in search and rescue efforts and with the development of prosthetic devices for people with muscular skeletal diseases.
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