Sony AI just published the first autonomous robot to beat elite humans at a competitive physical sport.
Its name is Ace. The sport is table tennis. The paper dropped in Nature today.
9 cameras triangulate the ball in 3D. Three systems zoom in on the ball's logo mid-flight to read its spin axis.
End-to-end reaction time is around 20 milliseconds, roughly 10x faster than a human.
It learned by playing itself for 3,000 hours in simulation. No human demonstrations.
In April 2025, Ace beat 3 of 5 elite players and lost to both pros. By December, it had beaten a pro.
At one point, Ace returned an impossible backspin shot. Kinjiro Nakamura, a 1992 Barcelona Olympian, watched from the side:
"No one else would have been able to do that. I didn't think it was possible. But the fact that it was possible means there is a possibility that a human could do it too."
Banned, Broke, and Homeless: The Human Cost of China’s Social Credit System
It began as whispers — a few people under bridges, a few families gone overnight. But soon, it became impossible to ignore. Across China, tens of thousands vanished into digital silence — not criminals, but victims of an algorithm. Behind the promise of “trust,” a hidden system now decides who can live freely… and who disappears from society itself.
Russia is preparing young kamikazes
On Monday, Russian schools will hold a new lesson from the “Conversations About Important Things” cycle. Its grandiose title: “Russia — a nation of victors.”
During the lesson, children are taught that a “hero is someone who chooses to die rather than surrender.”
This idea is explicitly written in the teaching materials and presented as normal, exemplary behavior.
High-school students will additionally be shown a fragment of Nikita Mikhalkov’s program “Besogon,” where he contrasts Russian soldiers with heroes of popular culture.
It is no surprise that children in Russia are viewed as cannon fodder from an early age and fed the idea of an “honorable death” for the tsar.
Human life in Russia is worth less than a bottle of vodka.
The Third Reich, Hamas, and North Korea would applaud.
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