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ROBOTICS Man vs. Machine: DeepMind's New Robot Serves up a Table Tennis Triumph Benj Edwards | Ars Technica “On Wednesday, researchers at Google DeepMind revealed the first AI-powered robotic... table tennis player capable of competing at an amateur human level. The system combines an industrial robot arm called the ABB IRB 1100 and custom AI software from DeepMind. […]

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Scientists hope to accelerate the development of human-level AI using a network of powerful supercomputers -- with the first of these machines fully operational by 2025.

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Experts tell Live Science what it means to "hit the wall" while exercising and how to avoid it.

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Google's DeepMind has been used to train a robot arm to play table tennis, and it beat human players.