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Meet ‘Ace,’ the paddle-wielding robot who just beat humans at ping pong in AI breakthrough

By Matt O'Brien, The Associated PressFortune

“There’s no way to program a robot by hand to play table tennis. You have to learn how to play from experience,” said Sony AI researcher Peter Dürr.

A paddle-wielding robot is so adept at playing table tennis that it is posing a tough challenge to elite human players and sometimes defeating them, according to a new study that shows how advances i…