Marcus SchulerSony's Ace robot beat three of five elite table tennis players in peer-reviewed matches, though it lost to professionals. The breakthrough isn't the paddle work - it's the sensor-rich court with nine cameras tracking ball position and spin. This points to advances in constrained physical AI rather than general-purpose robots. #AI #robotics #embodiedAI
Sony's Ace robot beat elite table-tennis players. The harder match starts now.
Sony AI's Ace robot beat elite table-tennis players in a peer-reviewed test, then Sony said later versions beat professionals. The real story sits between those claims. Ace's court-scale cameras, spin sensing, reinforcement learning, and custom hardware show physical AI crossing a serious threshold, but the same setup also exposes why robotics progress may not travel cleanly from sport to factories, homes, and streets.
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