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April 9, 2021
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Ping Pong Robot Paving the Way for Future Assistants 

We’re celebrating National Robotics Week with a look at a fun bit of research – teaching a robot to automatically improve its table tennis performance from a suboptimal human demonstration – that is paving the way for vital advancements to the future of robotics in health care, elder care, defense, space exploration, and more.

  

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This year, Georgia Tech has three robots – Slothbot, Shimon, and Shodofranka – that are part of the National Robotics Week 2021 Robotic All-Stars trading cards. Congratulations to all of those behind these innovative bots.


Please send your contributions for Bits & Bytes to Albert Snedeker at albert.snedeker@cc.gatech.edu.

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