Engineers developed a ping-pong-playing robot that quickly estimates the speed and trajectory of an incoming ball and precisely hits it to a desired location on the table.

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As the NBA gathers in Chicago for the lottery Monday night to determine the order of selections for next month's draft, it’s hard not to look back at how luck has shaped the franchise's short-term and ...

The game borrows elements from tennis, badminton, and ping pong, culminating in a sport ... When serving, the ball must bounce once on each side before players can start volleying.

MIT engineers are getting in on the robotic ping pong ... ball, given how your opponent hit it, which is information that an automatic ball launcher won't give you," Cancio says. "A robot like this ...

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For a few NBA teams each season, ping pong balls matter more than basketballs. The NBA Draft Lottery can chart the course of a franchise for years to come, and under the current format ...

The race for No. 1 There are 13 teams with a chance to win the No. 1 pick. Utah, Washington and Charlotte have the best odds, 14% each. New Orleans has a 12.5% chance, Philadelphia a 10.5% chance ...

Sometime around 6 p.m. EDT Monday, locked inside a secure room with no way of communicating with the outside world, team executives and others will watch 14 ping-pong balls start to bounce inside ...

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