Forpheus, table tennis robot, OMRON Corporation, Kyoto, Japan

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Forpheus - Future Omron Robotics technology for Exploring Possibility of Harmonized aUtomation with Sinic theoretics

Developer - OMRON Corporation

Home page - omron.com/innovation/forpheus.html

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Omron’s table tennis robot built to rally

Published on Oct 7, 2014

Omron Corp. is inviting visitors to CEATEC 2014 to play ping-pong with its robot equipped with the company’s sensing and control technologies. Rather than beating its opponent, the robot is designed to sustain long rallies.

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Published on Oct 7, 2014

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Ping Pong Robot at Omron Automation Lab

Published on Oct 9, 2014

Is this seriously cool or what? You can play ping pong against this robot, with it's dual vision systems, anticipation algorithms, self balancing algorithms, it's able to play back the ping pong ball to you no matter where you play it on the table. Perhaps with training, with some tuning of the anticipation of effects slicing and lifting in the ball, soon enough this robot may be able to beat even the best ping pong players in the world?

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Rematch: playing ping pong with a robot

Published on Oct 11, 2014

We managed to get a rematch with the robot!

Read more here: "I played ping pong with a robot and it went easy on me"

by Richard Lai
October 8, 2014

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Ping pong match - robot against human

Published on Sep 7, 2015

An example of the breakthrough of robotics using high speed mechanics and vision software.

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Publish table tennis robot technology!

Published on Oct 6, 2015