Engineers developed a ping-pong-playing robot that quickly estimates the speed and trajectory of an incoming ball and precisely hits it to a desired location on the table. MIT engineers are getting in ...

Oakland A's catcher Jhonny Pereda is one of many pro athletes who plays ping-pong. Illustration: Dan Goldfarb / The Athletic; Justine Willard / Athletics / Getty Images This story is part of Peak, The ...

When writer Lisa Lucas visited Phoenix, Arizona, she learned about the table tennis player Thelma Thall, who won two world championships in the 1950s. Thall competed in a male-dominated world shaped ...

There were no idle hands at Sharpa's CES booth. The company's humanoid may have been the busiest bot at show, autonomously playing ping-pong, dealing blackjack games and taking selfies with passersby.

At CES 2026, Singapore-based company Sharpa has redefined general-purpose robotics with the debut of its first autonomous humanoid. Named North, the robot has been designed to showcase that autonomous ...

Safdie goes deep on his terror of table tennis matches and how he pulled them off through choreography, CGI, and Timothée Chalamet's training. “I had ADD, so I ...

In the 1940s and '50s, New York City table tennis was a gritty subculture full of misfits, gamblers, doctors, actors, students and more. They competed, bet on the game or both at all-night spots like ...

Long before Timothée Chalamet starred in “Marty Supreme” — the hotly anticipated movie that hits theaters nationwide on Christmas Day — there was Marty “The Needle” Reisman, the wild-eyed, high-strung ...

Josh Safdie’s new film is inspired by table-tennis icon Marty Reisman.

The Panama City Table Tennis Club is hosting a free ping pong tournament and potluck dinner. The event will take place on Friday, Dec. 5, at 5:30 p.m. at A.D. Harris Gym. Giveaways and trophies will ...

For Tripp Roche, the most inspiring thing at his family’s restaurant isn’t the homemade pizza or lasagna. It’s the ping pong table upstairs. The hidden gem at Villa Tronco, Columbia’s oldest ...

EXCLUSIVE: Hot Ones, the buzzy talk show involving chicken wings, is getting another spinoff. First We Feast, the company behind the Sean Evans-hosted series, is debuting Hot Ones: Wing Pong later ...