Ping Pong playing robots

            Robots have taken over the workforce in factories, now are they ready to take over the ping pong tables? A University in China created robots in which their arms have seven directions of range of motion. “Key to their ability to serve and return balls with forehands, backhands, and stoic focus are eye-mounted cameras that predict the path of the ball so the robot get can ready for the next shot. Each camera captures 120 images per second, which are transferred to the robots' processors that calculate the balls' position, speed, angle, landing position and path.” It takes the robots between 50 to 100 milliseconds for them to respond to the ball. They do have the ability to play against humans, but they lack certain playing qualities. Such as, trickiness, and aggressive play. I think it would be cool to play against a robot, but it sucks that they aren’t able to play as well as a human. With time, I am pretty sure that they can be built up to play with even better quality.