Engineers developed a ping-pong-playing robot that quickly estimates the speed and trajectory of an incoming ball and precisely hits it to a desired location on the table. MIT engineers are getting in ...

A humanoid robot recently made headlines around the world for running a half-marathon and beating the human world record.

In a small Racine workshop, foam, fabric and a little imagination—turn into something that feels surprisingly real. Scott Lema is the creator behind the genius chaos of Oddly ...

The war in Iran is, for markets, a hot mess. It’s on, it’s off, it’s getting better, it’s getting worse and pretty much every asset class on the planet is getting bashed around with every new headline ...

What you need to know: Ping introduces the i540, a players-distance offering aimed at better players seeking to regain some lost distance. Price/Availability: Available immediately for custom fittings ...

Playing "Pong" during the Midwest Gaming Classic trade show at the Baird Center in Milwaukee in 2024. (Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images) The ceiling of the lobby in One Liberty Plaza in New York’s ...

All of the men nominated for best actor at the Academy Awards this year know how to command a scene. But let’s be honest: How many of them can both act and play table tennis? It’s just one, baby. And ...

Table tennis and film have a surprisingly entangled history. Both depended on the invention of celluloid – which not only became the substrate of film, but is also used to make ping pong balls.

Oakland A's catcher Jhonny Pereda is one of many pro athletes who plays ping-pong. Illustration: Dan Goldfarb / The Athletic; Justine Willard / Athletics / Getty Images This story is part of Peak, The ...

A few years ago, when Jewish actor Timothée Chalamet said his next project involved ping pong, people were perplexed. The star had already been nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his performance as ...

Safdie goes deep on his terror of table tennis matches and how he pulled them off through choreography, CGI, and Timothée Chalamet's training. “I had ADD, so I ...