Newsgroups: comp.robotics
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From: lgg@cs.brown.edu (Lloyd G. Greenwald)
Subject: Re: robot ping-pong (table tennis) ?
Message-ID: <1993Mar1.141124.5633@cs.brown.edu>
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Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 14:11:24 GMT
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In article <1993Feb28.020106.1@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu> pklammer@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu writes:
| I understand there have been some robots to play ping-pong (table
| tennis), or a contest between ping-pong-playing robots, is this so?
| Any leads to documentation, or especially any videotapes, would be
| appreciated; thanks in advance.
| -- 

Russell Andersson did his PhD thesis on "Real Time Expert System to
Control a Robot Ping-Pong Player" at the University of Pennsylvania in
the mid 80s.  There is also an AT&T Bell Laboratories report of the same
name from 1987.  To quote: "The system successfully plays against both
human and machine opponents."

Lloyd


