Sony AI's autonomous table tennis robot, Ace, has become the first known real-world AI system to beat elite and professional human players in official matches, as reported in Nature. Using nine cameras, event-based vision sensors, and reinforcement ...

Most tennis ball machines are glorified pitching devices: they send balls over the net, but they don’t feel anything like playing against a real opponent. That’s why the Acemate Tennis Robot, which just debuted at IFA 2025 in Berlin, immediately caught ...