Achanta Sharath Kamal Beware! Here comes the Self learning Robot!

The best table-tennis challenger the world has seen may well be a robot that gets coached by humans and goes one up on them. Initially a human player guided the robot arm through the shots. Later on its own the robot arm played and learnt from its mistakes. One advantage it has is that it never tires and is never bored to practice. Very quickly it improved better than many human players.
New Scientist of 27-October-2012 has this to say:
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A ROBOT that learns to play ping-pong from humans and improves as it competes against them could be the best robotic table-tennis challenger the world has seen.
www.ias.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de and colleagues at the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany suspended a robotic arm from the ceiling and equipped it with a camera that watches the playing area. Then Muelling physically guided the arm through different shots to return incoming balls.
The arm was then left to draw on its training to return balls hit by a human opponent. When the ball was in a position it had not seen before, the arm used its library of shots to improvise new ones. After an hour of unassisted practise, the system successfully returned 88 per cent of shots.
#-Link-Snipped-# have played table tennis in the past, but none have used human demonstration to learn the game. Ales Ude's JSI Home Page of the Jožef Stefan Institute in Slovenia says that doing so allows robots to play more like people.
PDF, which will be presented at an AAAI symposium in Arlington, Virginia, next month, is part of a broader goal to develop robots that can do a range of tasks after being guided by their owners, Muelling says.
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  • Ramani Aswath
    Ramani Aswath
    An update with a video showing the learning process:
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