MIT’s Robotic Table Tennis with High Speed Swings

Table tennis robots are nothing new. We have covered many of them here in the past. MIT’s Robotic Table Tennis is capable of high speed swings though. It comes with a model predictive controller and can quickly adapt to changes in the predicted ball trajectory. It is capable of hitting balls with an average exit velocity of 11 m/s.

According to the researchers, this robot can achieve 88% success rate across the three swing types. As the above video shows, this robot can handle various shots, including back/top spin and short shots.

[HT] [credit: David Nguyen, Kendrick D. Cancio, Sangbae Kim