Robotics
What Happened After the Nature Paper: Ace vs. Professional Players
In our recent Nature paper, we outlined how Ace, our autonomous table tennis robot, could compete with and beat elite players in matches that took...
Robotics
Inside Project Ace: Discover the Robot Athlete That Competes With Professional Table Tennis Players
On a recent afternoon in Tokyo, Sony AI Director and Lead Engineer, Peter Dürr, alongside project team members, watched a table-tennis ball vanish...
Robotics
Studying the Risks and Benefits of AI Companions: Researchers Discuss a New Framework for Understanding AI Companionship
AI systems are beginning to occupy a new role in people’s lives.
Sony AI
Sony AI’s Deep RL Team on Why the Hardest Problems Still Matter
From sentiment analysis to interactive robotics, AI tackles a range of challenges. While some tasks involve parsing patterns or generating outputs...
Peter Stone
RoboCup and Its Role in the History and Future of AI
As I write this blog post, we're a few days away from the opening of the 2021 RoboCup Competitions and Symposium. Running from June 22nd-28th, this...