{"id":10347,"date":"2014-03-14T12:44:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T19:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10347"},"modified":"2014-03-14T12:44:10","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T19:44:10","slug":"robots-playing-ping-pong-whats-real-and-whats-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/robots-playing-ping-pong-whats-real-and-whats-not","title":{"rendered":"Robots Playing Ping Pong: What\u2019s Real, and What\u2019s Not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Evan Ackerman \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/\"><span>IEEE Spectrum<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Duel: Timo Boll vs. KUKA Robot\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tIIJME8-au8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Really, Kuka? You <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_mbdtupCbc4&amp;list=UU6HrPPoLdjNynZCvUrJbmBw\">got us all excited for this match<\/a> between one of your cool new robots and a world champion table tennis player. We were thinking to ourselves, \u201cWow, Kuka wouldn\u2019t have set this whole thing up unless it was actually going to be a good match! Maybe we\u2019ll see some amazing feats of high speed robot arms, vision systems, and motion tracking!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/automaton\/robotics\/industrial-robots\/robots-playing-ping-pong-whats-real-and-whats-not\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Evan Ackerman \u2014 IEEE Spectrum Really, Kuka? You got us all excited for this match between one of your cool new robots and a world champion table tennis player. We were thinking to ourselves, \u201cWow, Kuka wouldn\u2019t have set this whole thing up unless it was actually going to be a good match! Maybe [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}