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Hiroaki Kitano

Hiroaki Kitano

Chief Executive Officer, Sony AI

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Sport has always been a proving ground for embodied intelligence — what works on the table should eventually work on the factory floor.

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Robot defeats elite human players in table tennis

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Oversaw the Ace program

A robot just beat elite human table tennis players at their own game, under official competition rules. Sony AI's system, called Ace, returned high-speed topspin and backspin shots from professionals during peer-reviewed trials published on the cover of Nature on April 23. It is the first time a machine has reached expert-level play in a commonly played competitive physical sport.

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