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As the #ParisOlympics shine a spotlight on the world of sports, #AI is making groundbreaking strides in this arena. DeepMind has unveiled a robotic agent that can hold its own against amateur human players in 🏓️ competitive table tennis. #Tabletennis serves as an ideal testbed for pushing the limits of robotic abilities, demanding high-speed motion, real-time decision-making, complex system design, and direct competition with human opponents. The Google DeepMind team has risen to the challenge with their learning-based table tennis robot, addressing the difficulties of "𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩-𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴." The #robot utilizes a hierarchical approach, with low-level skills focused on specific aspects of the game, such as forehand topspin or backhand targeting. A high-level controller analyzes game statistics and skill descriptors to select the optimal action for each situation. Training began by collecting a small dataset of human vs. human matches to seed the initial learning conditions in a simulated environment. The robot then refined its abilities through #reinforcementlearning before transferring to a physical robot. Equipped with high-speed cameras that capture the ball's motion at 125 frames per second, the robot feeds this visual data into a neural perception system to determine the ball's precise position. By playing against human opponents and leveraging motion capture, the robot continuously generates new #trainingdata , enabling it to learn increasingly sophisticated strategies in real time. In head-to-head matches, the robot triumphed against intermediate-level human players 55% of the time. But perhaps even more impressive was the fun factor - participants had a blast rallying with the robot, giving it rave reviews for being engaging and enjoyable to play with. The potential for AI in #sports is vast and thrilling. Japan's robotic 🏀 basketball star Cue achieves near-perfect shooting accuracy, while 🏐️ volleyball robots are already assisting in training human players. As the technology progresses, AI could become an invaluable asset for intelligent coaching, training, and practice, propelling human athletic performance to new heights. Video courtesy of Atil Iscen: https://lnkd.in/gE_juut8 #ComputerVision #TechNews #Innovation #ArtificialIntelligence #DeepLearning #MachineLearning #ML #DL #AIModels #objecttracking #datalabeling #groundtruth #trainingdata #mlalgorithm #dataannotation #BasicAI

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