Sometimes I play TT and wondered when there will be a robot with one arm - e.g. Kuka LBR [0] - on a mobile base) holding a conventional table tennis bat capable of beating the current world champion (Fan Zhendong at the moment, see e.g. [1])? I think the tech is there and we have also this demo [2] and it's impressive but wouldn't have a chance in a faster game (an educated guess as otherwise they would show faster game play).<p>We have also this [3] marketing clip from KUKA robotics against a top player, but unfortunately it's CGI.<p>I would guess 2020ish, but it seems like a hard tracking and latency problem ...<p><pre><code> [0] https://www.kuka.com/en-de/products/robot-systems/industrial-robots/lbr-iiwa
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfrrsxIgrSo
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ive4sKkpCqs
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIIJME8-au8</code></pre>