Japanese robot officially recognized as a coach in table tennis.
Android FORPHEUS received a certificate of the Guinness Book of records. A mechanism called FORPHEUS is manufactured by Omron and is the world’s first robot with which man can learn to play ping-pong.
Design equipped with sensors and cameras, allowing it to capture imagery at a speed of 80 frames per second, which provides the robot the ability to determine the location of the ball and expose the racket in the right place and position. Android itself makes the kick so that novice players it was easy to hit the ball.
According to the explanation of the developers, the robot is not created to replace people, but to show the possibilities of interaction between robots and humans. Without wasting time in vain, Omron began work to modernize the model with the most correctly exposed artificial intelligence.
