This is the robot capable of playing ping pong created by Google that would put professional players in trouble

Google has used his technology to create, and continue to refine, a robot that can play ping pong. This has managed to exchange more than 300 shots with a human being.

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“Robot learning has been applied to a wide range of challenging real-world tasks, including dexterous manipulation, legged locomotion, and grasping. It is less common to see robot learning applied to dynamic, high-acceleration tasks that require close human-robot interactions, such as table tennis.collects the company’s blog.

Faced with this, Google’s robotics division decided to create a tennis platform for “study the problems that arise from robotic learning in an interactive, dynamic, multiplayer environment.”

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This platform has been baptized as i-Sim2Real and, to train it, the researchers used simulation training, to then implement it in the real world so that its performance improves. In this environment, i-Sim2Real he trained with 5 different real opponents.

Although the robot still has a lot to learn, the company expressed interest in creating a robot in the future. “coach” that “can adapt its style of play according to the skill level of the human participant to keep things challenging and exciting.”

Source: Elcomercio

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