{"id":148556,"date":"2022-10-20T04:23:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T09:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/watch-googles-ping-pong-robot-pull-off-a-340-hit-rally"},"modified":"2022-10-20T04:23:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T09:23:49","slug":"watch-googles-ping-pong-robot-pull-off-a-340-hit-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/watch-googles-ping-pong-robot-pull-off-a-340-hit-rally","title":{"rendered":"Watch Google\u2019s Ping-Pong robot pull off a 340-hit rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fh7VK0WPvU4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As if it weren\u2019t enough to have AI tanning humanity\u2019s hide (figuratively for now) at every board game in existence, Google AI has got one working to destroy us all at Ping-Pong as well. For now they emphasize it is \u201ccooperative,\u201d but at the rate these things improve, it will be taking on pros in no time.<\/p>\n<p>The project, <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/is2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called i-Sim2Real<\/a>, isn\u2019t just about Ping-Pong but rather about building a robotic system that can work with and around fast-paced and relatively unpredictable human behavior. Ping-Pong, AKA table tennis, has the advantage of being pretty tightly constrained (as opposed to playing basketball or cricket) and a balance of complexity and simplicity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSim2Real\u201d is a way of describing an AI creation process in which a machine learning model is taught what to do in a virtual environment or simulation, then applies that knowledge in the real world. It\u2019s necessary when it could take years of trial and error to arrive at a working model \u2014 doing it in a sim allows years of real-time training to happen in a few minutes or hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if it weren\u2019t enough to have AI tanning humanity\u2019s hide (figuratively for now) at every board game in existence, Google AI has got one working to destroy us all at Ping-Pong as well. For now they emphasize it is \u201ccooperative,\u201d but at the rate these things improve, it will be taking on pros in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148556","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}