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Japanese electronics, entertainment and image sensor group whose research arm Sony AI built the Ace table tennis robot.
- Sony AI's Ace becomes the first robot to beat elite table tennis players under official rules, Nature paper shows
Sony AI's autonomous table tennis system Ace won three of five matches against elite players and lost both matches against two Japanese T.League professionals in April 2025 trials, according to a paper published in Nature on April 22, 2026. The robot combines event-based vision sensors from Sony Semiconductor Solutions, an eight-axis arm and reinforcement learning policies trained in simulation, and reaches a perception latency of 10.2 milliseconds.
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