It matches the capabilities of an amateur-level human tennis player and which can handily outperform beginner-level players.

“This work takes a step towards that goal.”

Each player competed in 3 games against the robot.

Google Pixel 9a laying on a table.

Only humans served as the robot only has one arm.

Despite its lack of extra appendages, the robot went undefeated against the beginner-level players.

In 2016, it famouslyoutperformed human champions at Go,prompting one to retire fromthe sport.

‘Figment’ in a Galaxy Z Fold 6 next to an 8BitDo Pro 2 controller.

And earlier this year, DeepMind debuteda duo of soccer-playing automatons.

A DeepMind researcher testing Google’s table-tennis robot

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