"The ping pong player The movie Marty Supreme just came out a month ago, so I guess it's only appropriate that there was a ping-pong-playing robot at this year's convention. The Chinese robotics firm Sharpa had rigged up a full-bodied bot to play some competitive table tennis against one of the firm's staff. When I stopped by the Sharpa booth, the robot was losing to its human competitor, 5-9, and I would not characterize the game that was occurring as particularly fast-paced."
"CES has always been a robot extravaganza, and this year's event saw the announcement of a number of important robotics developments, including the new, production-ready debut of Atlas, the humanoid from Boston Dynamics. Then there were all the robots on the showroom floor, where bots often serve as good marketing for the companies involved. If they don't always give a totally accurate representation of where commercial deployment is at the moment,"
CES featured major robotics announcements and numerous showroom demonstrations, including the production-ready debut of Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid. Showroom robots often functioned as marketing showcases that offered glimpses of possible future directions rather than definitive measures of commercial readiness. A Sharpa full-bodied robot demonstrated a dexterous robotic hand by playing table tennis, losing 5-9 to a human and showing modest speed. EngineAI presented T800 humanoid robots in a mock boxing ring that shadowboxed without making contact and displayed somewhat unpredictable movements. The exhibits combined impressive spectacle with uneven practical maturity.
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