Table tennis player Timo Boll will face a Kuka robot opponent for a showdown on March 11 The human race has a growing history of pitting its best and brightest against mechanized challengers.

Man vs. machine: DeepMind’s new robot serves up a table tennis triumph Amateur-beating ping-pong AI learned to play in a simulated environment.

He was just Stuart the table-tennis player, a genial man nearing 81 competing in his fourth consecutive Maccabiah in the over-60 category of athletes. Forwarding the News.

Olympic table tennis wrap up Wednesday when China and Japan compete in the men's team final. Technical factors — such as lighting and air flow — can either delight or plague table tennis players.