The Duel: Timo Boll vs. KUKA Robot

Man against machine.
The unbelievably fast KUKA robot faces off against one of the best table tennis players of all time. Who has the best technique? Who will win the first ever table tennis duel of human versus robot?
Watch this thrilling commercial of table tennis and robotics performed at the highest level. The KUKA KR AGILUS demonstrates its skills with the table tennis racket - a realistic vision of what robots can be capable of in the future.
Timo Boll, the German table tennis star, is the new brand ambassador for KUKA Robotics in China. The collaboration celebrates the inherent speed, precision, and flexibility of KUKA's industrial robots in tandem with Boll's electrifying and tactical prowess in competition. To celebrate the new KUKA Robotics factory in Shanghai, the thrilling video was a highlight of the Grand Opening on March 11th, 2014. The 20,000 sq. meter space will produce the KR QUANTEC series robot as well as the KRC4 universal controller for the Asian market. As a market leader in China, KUKA aims to further develop automation in the country while providing a modern and employee-friendly working environment.
More: www.kuka-timoboll.com
music production: Lost in Music; composer: Matthias Neuhauser; soundmix: Robert MIller c.o. m-sound
www.kuka.com/timo

[@baconair]

I wish I could see this game like a real table tennis game. Like, from one angle, with no cuts or inserted slowmo.

[@manamemajeff6283]

Oh what? I thought this is how a normal tennis table match on video looks like...

[@sleepernotes]

fcking yess

[@АгроМагро]

Better see how the kibrg collects a tractor in Belarus: ))))) kzbin.info/www/bejne/poWrY2VjfNqIm9U

[@bluenami7520]

Yeah this video sucks. Is the cameraman on meth?

[@lsq7833]

Lmao, it's a staged promo. No, there's no robot playing table tennis... Yet. The lack of any sensor to detect the ball should have been telling enough.

[@dhidhi1000]

Can we see the raw film? Thank you.

[@KUKARobotGroup]

Dear Dhiego, game footage is only available as part of the commercial. If you want to learn mor about the video, you can watch the behind the scenes clip on our channel. Best regards

[@nikolakos2183]

KUKARobotGroup So why no link to the behind the scenes clip?I worked with Kuka-Tools they are great but the vid looks fishy to me.

[@jithinkozhikodanveedu6684]

KUKARobotGroup shaky cams, short cuts.. we have all seen in many movies sir.. usually to hide animation..

[@dtiydr]

+Nikola Kos Of course its not real.

[@anytimetomcsi]

+Levente Horváth Wiki: At first, the company focused on house and street lights, but soon expanded to other products (welding equipment and solutions; big containers), to become the market leader in communal vehicles in Europe by 1966.

[@Toopa88]

When you test every feature in your editing software.

[@cosmicbrotv6525]

Underrated joke

[@Raachen]

😄😄😄

[@cxtalyst]

i know right? i edited a decent montage without knowing what the hell i was doing lol.

[@bloonzer3473]

Concept all a concept

[@Milo_Estobar]

Must be indian editor

[@BaltoLonewolf]

Take a shot of vodka every time the camera angle changes

[@a-drewg1716]

mate you could take a shot of fucking bud light for every camera change and it would still end in liver failure due to alcohol poisoning

[@amare2657]

@@a-drewg1716 fuck it water

[@BaltoLonewolf]

I tried taking shots of water instead, and my blood turned into Sea Sauce

[@klausstock8020]

March 10th, 2014: this video gets uploaded to KZbin. March 10th, 2014 and 35 seconds: Russia runs out of vodka.

[@whispersandechoes]

See you in A&E!

[@davidconnelly1793]

A potentially interesting video, ruined by unnecessary drama.

[@jakewhitaker1140]

I was thinking the exact same and I'm 14

[@slightlyokvideos]

+Jake Whitaker nobody cares about your age

[@JoJoJoShredder]

+Jake Whitaker Me too and I'm 12

[@anise8646]

+JoJoJoShredder yeah im still a fetus

[@mrkiky]

+David Connelly Well the drama is all it has, I bet the rest is fake. Why bother programming a robotic arm to play table tennis when you can just cgi the whole thing for much less? And of course they made Timo win, he wouldn't agree to star in a commercial that made him look bad.

[@BinkieMcFartnuggets]

In the future, robots will enslave humanity and force us to watch never ending robot vs robot table tennis matches.

[@Pitchoo973]

too much terminator lol

[@mchase4]

I wish they had more angles of video

[@kjc7344]

Yea, this video was a bit simple due to its lack of cuts and angles

[@newenglander4513]

Yeah, it would make it easier to watch.

[@thegoodthebadandtheugly579]

Yeah, felt a bit dull watching it from one angle..

[@Michael-px7gg]

Ya...just back up and let us see the robot work. The constant panning makes it hard to see!

[@tenaciousteo7644]

Where you at bro? Why not posting videos?

[@bobs8789]

Recording is crap, stop with the slow motion & flipping of the camera... kills the video. Just let them play..

[@DH-rj2kv]

It's nonsense. The robot can do nothing of that sort.

[@TheRodonji]

It is because they can't play. I clicked the video because I sas interested in how they got the robot to play but it is a "fake". The robot probably does play but the guy is hitting it to where the robot is going to hit back.

[@epicurus1988]

Agreed

[@numberone2836]

It would be easy for any semi experienced player to beat the robot. Even if it was fast enough and calibrated to never miss, its field of range is too short. Easy to hit it where it can't reach. Its just a long advertisement

[@АгроМагро]

Better see how the kibrg collects a tractor in Belarus: ))))) kzbin.info/www/bejne/poWrY2VjfNqIm9U

[@SaladUK]

Wow, what absolute bullshit. Heavily edited, even the ball was fake at times. Jesus Christ.

[@ph0b0rz]

So? I don't think anyone is supposed to think that the robots really play... :P

[@lapincealinge2]

Omg you have such hindsight, please teach us master !

[@Xcrewo]

FAAAKE

[@JoeWeirdly]

ph0b0rz With advances in robotics, it seems very plausible that a robot could play. They can play chess and Jeopardy and carry military gear up a mountain. The only thing that makes this video interesting is the promise of a real match.

[@gundamomega]

For sure, but soon they will be able to play smoothly. I was working on the same thing, trying to control the KUKA to play table tennis, but a student project is not even close :(

[@alexharkler]

I'm getting a headache watching this. This cameraman needs to calm tf down.

[@АгроМагро]

Better see how the kibrg collects a tractor in Belarus: ))))) kzbin.info/www/bejne/poWrY2VjfNqIm9U

[@degrees97]

That's like the worst editing ever, just show us proper footage. Nobody wants to see these camera changes literally every 0.5 seconds.

[@benevolentautore4463]

That was the only way for it to work. The robot never actually played against him.

[@jsmariani4180]

Hey, I spent hours and hours editing it this way, and gosh darn it, you're going to like it!!

[@mariovelez578]

yeah with slo mo and awkward angles and speed changes. music intensifies

[@AskAW]

Did you make this comment after watching the video? If so, the video editor won.

[@w1z4rd9]

JG source ?

[@neonglowmusic]

I couldn't watch this due to the horrible editing and camera movement. It seemed like an interesting concept, too. Oh well.

[@santoshpattapu8438]

They intentionally moved the camera so much to coverup the stupidity of robot...🤣

[@BSWM]

Exactly the editing was irritating, too jumpy

[@MrRazorblade999]

And the music is just awful

[@johnjorgensen6882]

Completely agree--the camera work was obnoxious to a fault. I'm interested to see how well the machine actually plays, not... this.

[@АгроМагро]

Better see how the kibrg collects a tractor in Belarus: ))))) kzbin.info/www/bejne/poWrY2VjfNqIm9U

[@JimTaylor42]

I do not believe that this totally speeded-up, slowed-down, edited-to-death, music-saturated, made-up movie is a true record of what actually happened. Please upload the raw footage and then I may be impressed.

[@davesplatz]

It's called advertisement...

[@JimTaylor42]

davesplatz If it is an advertisement then I definitely do not believe it.

[@Rondaxx]

lol its not a religion...... but u miss the point ,even if it is not possible yet to perform a real game like this video want to make believe us though it makes one important statement it is just a question of time when this will be reality. This piece of hardware is damn close to natural reaction and agility.

it's true they overdid it..

[@magnusnygren8163]

I want one, I don't know why but I want it... It could make me breakfast, pancakes and beacon mmmmmm

[@k1uboy]

keep calm and realize its a cool commercial folks. no more, no less.

[@DanyBaron]

Great edit, but I would have prefered to see an unedited match

[@Beatstruck]

Or at least one where Timo Boll actually tried his best.

[@xFerris]

Unedited = no game

[@arja3l]

I agree, but still great match!

[@albert93911]

Exactly my thoughts. Too many cuts.

[@pccy1998]

There is no real match. The whole thing is fake.

[@bikebudha01]

2014 "look, how cool is that?!" 2037 "Run for your lives!!!"

[@CebastianRosing]

While I'm sure you make excellent robot arms, I'm disappointed with the video. I was expecting to see something live, or at least an almost unedited version of the match. This is basically an ad, and you got a ton of people excited for... well, nothing really. I hope you learn from this, and show us the real deal some day! :)

[@CebastianRosing]

***** do you have a link to that? I'm sure of the same thing, it's pre programmed and it looks like it also have some cgi included. It's a shame, really.

[@busa89]

I'll believe it when i see it in real time. Too much editing.

[@michaelmadrid9614]

what is it with everyone now adays who wants everything to be fucking real and if its the sightest bit editing they go on a rampage and yell "fake"!!!!!..dude just take the video for what it is and enjoy it...i don't see you coming out with any mind blowing accomplishing videos...

[@putintin]

Michael Madrid why should i enjoy.. its not a movie .. :| when i see something super artificial and video tries hard to convince it's not .. i have every right to point it out ..

[@busa89]

Michael Madrid They say its "The unbelievably fast KUKA robot" but make the whole video in slow motion. Get the fuck out of here.

[@aesiegman]

Michael Madrid It's not about its being fake. It's that the camera work is so distracting that we can't even see what's going on with the robot. I have no doubt it was excellent but how can we get a feel of man v. machine when all we see are flashes of movement and slo-mo? The camera work was trying so hard to be flashy, that it made the whole robot questionable.

[@Liist]

I was expecting a live public match.

[@brettybluevein]

Yeah this was highly disappointing.

[@jennifercheng9456]

Me too. :\

[@KUKARobotGroup]

Challenge Timo Boll for an online match of table-tennis and win a trip to the 2015 TT World Championships www.kuka-timoboll.com/en/game/

[@JamesEdwards780]

Gotta admit that I was looking forward to an actual competition not an over produced commercial. I guess the technology is just not there yet. That day will come.

[@preston0808]

Agreed... This was a huge letdown

[@RFC3514]

preston0808 On the other hand, if someone really _had_ spent 5 years teaching an industrial robot to play table tennis, people would be posting about how disappointed they were with the time scientists waste on stupid things, instead of looking for a cure for cancer. :-P

[@fire_silicon7803]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/d6m2qouDl7tmj8k

[@spiegel3269]

The people at KUKA have no integrity for doing this. We were all expecting a live match of man vs. machine and instead we get this overly edited bs with quick cuts used to hide its fakeness. Highly unethical of KUKA.

[@KUKARobotGroup]

Dear spiegel, thank you for your feedback. We are sad to see that you did not enjoy our video, which we believe is a nice vision of our product. However, we did not announce a live game and believe that the video was entertaining for both robot and table tennis enthusiasts. Best regards

[@spiegel3269]

KukaRobotGroup Of course YOU would believe that it was entertaining for both robot and table tennis enthusiasts - and you are wrong. And please don't count # of times watched as proof you are right. That's just people like me curious to see the actual match - WITHOUT all of the horribly edited quick cuts, slow motion, close ups and sound effects. Just show the darned match! You can see by the approval vs. disapproval rating that it's running 50/50. In a well done marketing campaign the thumbs up should be MUCH higher than the thumbs down.

[@fejlecbezar]

spiegel "To all laic who watched this video: A "live" match between a professional vs an industrial machine would riquired a lots of sensors, and a very complicated software to operate. That would be a very difficult thing to do, even if it is not impossible. Who is in the robotics can understand why this is not "live". The video only representsd the movement capability of the robot, what is quite impressive imo. Stop hating, they have to precisely program EVERY SINGLE MOVEMENT, what is in the vid, and Timo Boll had to aim for that one direction, with a precise timing, to do it right. Yeah i would fell of my chair if they would made it "live" but that is way too hard to deliver. Maybe a group of scientists could do it with enough resources. One day... :D Sry for bad english. Good vid." by me

[@spiegelmann82]

fejlecbezar man you fail at understanding things. its not about if its possible or not. its about kukarobotics said there is gonna be match between human and robot- and it WAS NOT.

[@fejlecbezar]

spiegelmann82 I'd like to see where. Also i'd like to see where did kuka robotics stated that the game will be LIVE, and legit. It is just you guys who has no clue about robotics, and watched too much sci-fi think like this. A real robot engineer, or a person with brain understands this. This is not about winning, it's a showoff on an industrial robots capability. And also: it is not for u, it is for the costumers. U fail at understanding :)

[@livapininfarina2164]

A big "woot" to the marketeers of KUKA and a big "hug" to Timo!

[@Arbiter902]

We want a live match .

[@Robby303]

They tried to make it so intense with the music and the diving. Load of crap

[@TheTweakerTechnique]

You're one of those douche bags that is just impossible to please eh?

[@jasonspath1232]

Fake or not, I thought it was pretty creative at the very least

[@boradis]

Jesus Christ If they had *just* shown the match without the slo-mo and the rapid-fire editing I'd be interested. But it looks so Hollywood it seems fake. This is like watching NFL Films where the purpose is to overhype some guys rolling around in mud as if it meant something. You guys (Kuka) listened to your filmmaker instead of your brains. Just let the robot do its thing and record it. If its impressive we'll know.

[@cameronzy279]

There's crazy editing because this is a kuka robot ad. You'd need very fast, very accurate vision systems to play ping pong with a robot. For the time it would take the robot to even receive an image, do the math for the correct position and swing, the ball is already going to be off the table. I program a Fanuc R1000ia-30ib with said vision systems. It's all but 'fast'.

[@chrismitchell4840]

I learned to program KUKA weld bots years ago - 2 on a rail and one overhead utilizing a synchronized fixture table (350 deg rotation) that all 3 bots were welding at 1" per second (Miller square wave CLE power souce). Assemblies were very complex and had multiple weld requirements for each unit. Even set up a weld cell using (2) Foronius CMT power units on a KUKA longitudinal seam system to weld 30' galvanized grain elevator legs - 1 on each side and would weld at 3" /second (10 minute production rate). Used a 2 axis robotic arm (each side) rather than a fixed drive to increase production rate by position feedback to the bot controller since the leg sides were inconsistant surface level - basically each leg was made from 2 formed sides with 3 bends from various thickness (12-20 ga sheet metal). Using fixed rail modules that the stinger is mounted to requires head adjustment for each thickness. The KUKA position feedback auto adjusts as well as torch head angle compensation based on volt/amp/speed variables. Sorry, that was long - my comment is I never had an opportunity to utilize vision systems due to they were in infancy when I set up cells 15-20 years ago. The systems today are incredibly fast as proven in the video!

[@OlsonKustomWorks]

o ya? robots cant do all that huh. what about the one in this guys GARAGE kzbin.info/www/bejne/n565f5pvn5ylrLc

[@farsanan7122]

OK guys.... I'm not getting anything at all.... I just found it motivating... Idk y...

[@DrMatt96]

put 2 of them against eachother

[@ASRMN27]

End of the world

[@jawli2848]

It would be an endless cycle causing a blackhole leading to a parallel dimension

[@yvanimperionetti7204]

Thats like googleing google

[@adeptsang]

+jaw li that was funny

[@brianmcg321]

Its a well known fact if you google google all life as you know it will stop instantaneously and every molecule in your body will explode at the speed of light.

[@mykulpierce]

So someone thought the best way to showcase your robotics technology is to set a fake match between a machine and sports star. One of the most disappointing marketing campaigns ever.

[@josepablolunasanchez1283]

I can give two thumbs up for the creative person who came up with this idea. It is not a showcase demonstration, it is an ad, a short action movie.

[@eldsprutandedrake]

Well this was disapointing... Looks like Michael Bay directed this or something, waaay over edited and each shot is kept for like 0.5 seconds at max. Would have been much better with just a fixed camera so you could actually see something ^^

[@mmoussli]

Was ein tolles kraftvolles Video. Bin stolz darauf bei Kuka in Augsburg mein Praktikum gemacht zu haben, allerdings nicht beim Tennis sondern in der IT 🎾 😊👌.

[@robyrob78]

Stop trying to make it some big epic thing and show a normal camera angle where you can see the whole table and show it normal speed, all those cuts and slow mo are annoying as hell.

[@ml497]

This just makes it look fake to me more than anything. They wouldn't have to develop a clever ping pong robot for these action film shots.

[@TrasherBiner]

Nah then we would have realized that the robotic arm actually sucks at playing ping pong, that's why we aren't show AT ANY POINT, the actual rate at which the robot returns the balls. It's just a mere ad for these KUKA guys..... yaaaawn. They truly missed an opportunity to make kind of a bigdog demo.

[@PowerSports]

This would have been a great commercial, if they hadn't lied to us for weeks and weeks about it being a real competition. Pathetic.

[@christianreese7351]

Is this a ping pong match or an action movie trailer? Judging by the fancy camera work, I'd say the latter.

[@TrasherBiner]

They overdid BIG TIME with the camera work and editing. So much , it's distracting and you don't get to see how fast the robot arm plays at all. I would have liked to see a wider shot to see how the AI adapted to different shots etc, instead of this fictional "movie-esque" trailer. It's an ad , not the "duel man vs machine" I was expecting , and I'm sure the machine did suck a lot more than showed in the video.

[@Hflame20]

TrasherBiner that's the thing, it didn't play. it was just an ad to demonstrate how fast and accurate the robot arm can move. it didn't play ping pong at all. there was no sensors to detect the balls position from what I can see.

[@RealNeckster]

eine der besten Werbungen aller Zeiten...vor Allem weil 2 KUKA Roboter meine Kollegen sind...

[@torvant1366]

The score was 9/11. Kuka did 9/11.

[@srifaklah2269]

haha Nice work

[@thedreamteam5995]

I KNEW ALL ALONG!

[@abdallaahmed780]

Omg I commented the same without seeing your

[@devanshtrivedi3905]

Best thing on Internet today😂

[@Nipsu_uspiN]

Funny cause ”Kuka” means ”Who” in finnish. It is still a question :D

[@K0DeX]

I really wanted this to be legit. :( So many camera edits, cuts, and obvious CG has left me a lil' disappointed. For what it is, though, awesome video!

[@JRSportBrief]

Robots will just be kicking our asses in all facets of life very soon...

[@JohnDoe-cq5tf]

Cool but horrible camera work.

[@Alex201988]

Indeed.

[@DieNWOsiehtAlles66]

These cuts every 3 seconds make me throw up ... would have loved to watch this a bit, but impossible.

[@Citizen2047]

Obviously this is not a real play

[@CrazedAddictz]

Why do robots always look like they're taunting?

[@garyb8373]

Looks staged -- like a movie match, (im)perfectly scripted. It would have been nice to see even one game of the set where the camera angle didn't change so we could see what the robot was actually capable of. This series of single hit, perfect camera angle shots show nothing except the script writer's and director's visions of what such a game might turn out like. Very disappointing.

[@CountZodiac]

This is what i was exactly thinking :)

[@brazzbazz]

kuka already won your interest with this vid. everyone starts discus about "fake" or animated, etc. best PR

[@garyb8373]

brazzbazz but Kuka haven't impressed me. If I were in the market to purchase one if these robots, I'd now be ignoring Kuka -- this video is them telling me something, but unable to back that up. I'm now looking at their competitors to see what they will offer.

[@araiq]

it is not fake, its a robot, ultra fast, ultra strong. Technology has advanced so fast that you dont want to believe it..

[@garyb8373]

ixrewr the thing is, I'd _like_ to see it. They just didn't show it.

[@byfobinh]

So, where’s the part where the robot get mad and decided to take over the world after swiftly took him down 🧐

[@fryloc359]

Thats when we get a bunch of wookiees to play so they'll lose and pull the robots arms from their sockets.

[@PenzaSaratov]

А так хотелось посмотреть реальный матч Болла против КУКА, а посмотрел нарезку отрендеренных видео с мячем из 3D-редактора. Только шум подняли.

[@EnomerUa]

Сразу было понятно, что это будет ненастоящий матч - у робота отсутствует система компьютерного видения (отслеживание положения мяча).

[@ACisking24]

One of my favorite videos ever. I know it's not real, but it's so cinematic and the music just gets me excited every time I watch it. Maybe I'm just a sucker for good production, but nonetheless, I still find this video to be amazing years later. Can't wait until technology advances enough that we can have a real showdown like this. But then again, maybe we don't want a world where robots are that comparable to humans?...

[@ricardomantovaniassis]

Do you know who plays this song?

[@effeniet]

How long is 'ever'? Like 2 weeks?

[@ACisking24]

@@effeniet well at least three years, since this comment brought me back to this video and it definitely still holds up!

[@effeniet]

@@ACisking24 effects are very nice, but the excessive use of it does harm to the event.

[@PapaMotzbacke]

And where is the Video UNCUT ??? Looks like a good Fake. Too much Cuttes that show me that is not real that the Robot is so fast.

[@thebest3522]

+1

[@POCHOCLO84]

I agree

[@POCHOCLO84]

One I finished it, well, it´s just an advertisement.

[@Morrov]

***** animation? It's been busted anyway.

[@majestytd]

I pretty sure everyone know its fake... You don't have to comment to say it's fake... OF COURSE ITS NOT REAL...

[@AskAW]

Why am I watching robotics commercials at 1 am?

[@JoSheeply]

2 am here 😂

[@okimura690]

Well that was the most disappointing thing I've seen in a while. Staged plays, cgi, outrageous jump cuts. We were promised a duel between man and machine, and what we get is a choreographed fake match with no real meaning behind any of it. It doesn't showcase Timo's skill nor the precision/mobility of the KUKA. That was the whole reason for this video and only the tiniest glimpse of those aspects was shown.

[@technics6215]

What is this? It looks like video editing software commercial, not robot commercial. I was waiting for this video to see that outstanding robot performance, but everything is chopped to 1 second slow motions, speed ups and fancy camera moves.

[@Pyamamannetje]

I wonder what would happen if you put 2 of those KUKA's against each other :P how long would one game last?

[@babychicks0748]

I hope you do know that this is all cgi and the KUKA robot can't play like it does in the vid

[@royalestryker]

6 years ago and They we're still playing 😅

[@josepablolunasanchez1283]

This is an ad. A commercial. And a good one, I love watching it over and over. It is like an action movie with robots.

[@markh9875]

How to maximally reduce the actual information content and real imoression of what happened by contantly changing camera angles snd speeds and never simply showing what happened from a useful perspective at real speed for any useful length of time. Brilliant!

[@christopherrid9592]

kuka robot confirmed for illegal serves

[@GarketMardener]

meme

[@jasondads9509]

Nah, it hit the ball up high enough before it served

[@W.I.L_1917]

No

[@imperialmarchinhumanbowels5726]

Actually, the rules permit one to throw up the ball with the bat like that if one be one-armed. There are actually some one-armed, handicapped players that do so; it can also be done if one's other arm be broken and one still elect to play.

[@Alborsful]

😂 😂

[@SeregPie]

я вообще не понял смысл всего этого. вначале нам обещают поединок между машиной и человеком. потом нам дают фейк и даже не скрывают этого. камера двигается вокруг стола, над столом, под мячиком, перед ним, телепортируется с одной стороны на другу и вращается, когда время замерло. в конце нам сообщают о том, какие у них классные роботы, которых у них нет.

[@АнатолийШ-ъ8д]

голимая реклама

[@ruggedrat]

This is the most infuriating thing ever! They released a teaser and had a month long countdown for an _ad_? How drop-dead stoopid do you have to be to put out a countdown for an ad? I think everybody was expecting an actual match, not this load of non sense.

[@rekon798]

It worked though, didn't it?

[@ruggedrat]

Rekon If they're from the no-publicity-is-bad-publicity school, then sure ;)

[@braddoherty5984]

30 seconds into the actual game play, I was thinking "I bet the comments are going to be savage towards the motion sickness inducing camerawork and cutting" I was not disappointed.

[@mlsterlous]

damn director. Stop moving dat camera around

[@FrancisManga]

Thank you !!!!

[@DaemonovEarth]

We want to see real footage and a real game not propaganda

[@neotakashi235]

DaemonovEarth It's a commercial. not a documentary. It's suppose to be "propaganda" that is bias towards the robot.

[@OneDamNote]

DaemonovEarthYou can't handle the real footage....seriously it's boring as shit.

[@marcarriaga8833]

Today the human would win some r robots cam self learn but their slow robots today aren't as advance as humans

[@nickhinebrook4484]

Marc Arriaga just like cameras can see better than the human eye and have better focus, some robots can be smarter than humans. like the deep blue vs chess grandmaster. a supercomputer defeated the best chess player in the world. so I hate to break it to you. but what u said is false

[@Jianju69]

"Propaganda"? This is not politics! This is an advertisement for robotics.

[@TheMartinandLuisShow]

I was expecting the robot to just disintegrate the guy with a laser.

[@josepablolunasanchez1283]

I was expecting a giant stompy armored combat robot to enter the room at the end.

[@gamingprotv9684]

Why do I get that recommended 6 years later

[@colonelboston]

This is how Skynet started...

[@pivasm]

Skynet started by playing ping-pong? Well, I guess you have to start somewhere...

[@sicoticosandro]

fake.. too much slow motion.. cuts.. show us the match how it really went.

[@KUKARobotGroup]

The duel between Timo Boll and our KR AGILUS has now registered more than 4 million views only on youtube! In case you did not see it yet, here it is again The Duel: Timo Boll vs. KUKA Robot

[@avleenkaur7562]

[@UniverseOfKnowledge]

more like kaka... or coocoo... why not use robots to feed the world you morons.

[@TaberIV]

UniverseOfKnowledge Don't pretend this isn't dope

[@TaberIV]

UniverseOfKnowledge Also more seriously, managing to teach a robot a thing like ping pong helps advance robot technology so that they can do things like feed the world

[@austinclark3809]

It isn't "dope." It isn't actually playing anything because its not reacting to the player. All the moves you see and movements you see are programmed positions in a world or user frame relative to a master position and home position which you see the robot go to several times through the vid. what you are seeing is the human react to the robots programming. In order for the robot to "play" it would need some form of a vision system so see where the ball is and it still wouldn't do what they are saying it does here. all you see on the EOAT is a single paddle. The true work horse of robotics is Fanuc. The most cutting edge right now is UR(Universal Robotics). Kuka robots are not user friendly they are temperamental and require extra purchases to remaster the robot. a $30K remastering kit.

[@markogrbavac1197]

People complaining about editing...want raw footage It is fine considering that its fake

[@norbertfleck812]

I guess it was a master Thesis for a student to program a table tennis software. And they probably cut out something mismatches. A robot of that class easily can do such a performance.

[@gildeddrake1479]

@@norbertfleck812 it shouldn't be that hard to make a robot that just can't lose, right ?

[@fryloc359]

@@gildeddrake1479 Stuff Made Here has a basketball hoop that won't let you miss.

[@xuimod]

Pretty cool but too much video editing makes me skeptical. I want to see the match in real time speed with no crazy camera angles to see if this robot is legitimately that fast and good at ping pong.

[@josepablolunasanchez1283]

It is an ad, of course, a very cool ad.

[@TheToygangster]

really.... I was looking forward to this....

[@UselessDuckCompany]

Without the unedited footage this test is meaningless.

[@sean63b]

i mean it's not really meant to be a 'test'... well it is but it's mostly supposed to be a 'cool' video

[@arminius7909]

Did you even watch the full video? It's not a test. It's a cool commerical for the kuka robots. It even says 'not the best in table tennis, but the best at robotics'

[@cyka_delik9537]

@@arminius7909 "Probably the best", you tool. Fanuc is the actual best.

[@arminius7909]

@@cyka_delik9537 it said that at the end of the video

[@nclsDesign]

@@cyka_delik9537 This is really a iPhone vs. Android, PS vs Xbox, Mercedes vs Audi and whatever kind of question. Who is best for you depends on what you wanna do with it.

[@tony359]

sorry, the footage is moving way too fast, it gives you headache. Particularly at the beginning when the camera keeps moving left and right following the ball!

[@MacumbaNervosa]

This video defeats the purpose entirely. Since this is a heavily dramatized bullshit ad, they can make this robot look as fast as they want.

[@AvangionQ]

This needs to be re-edited at a wider angle so that both human, table and machine arm can be seen in a single frame, then let the game play from start to finish without any special effects as primary footage ~ no CGI, no jump cuts, slow-mo only on replays.

[@DavidCallawayi3]

Awesome! I want to see it in full speed though.

[@robology_channel]

Amazing Robot. Thank U fo videos

[@MrPeterBlood]

Из видео видно, что создатели хорошо умеют резать, клеить, замедлять и ускорять видео. И совершенно не видно, как робот играет в теннис. Говно, говно, говно, говно.

[@ivan7158]

***** Нам обещали реальную игру, и некоторые давно следили за новостями об этом, поэтому мы и расстроены после стольких дней ожидания.

[@MrPeterBlood]

***** Это реклама видеоредактора? Или студии, снимающей клипы? Или всё же робота? И где он, этот робот?

[@Siver.l]

@@MrPeterBlood на АвтоВАЗе кузова варит!

[@Cnctrldotcom]

A very good advert but my guess would be it is almost completely staged. The robot can probably move fast enough to play table tennis but the software required to make it play well would be prohibitively expensive to write not to mention the complexity of the visual system you would need which was clearly no where to be seen.

[@nomaschalupas2453]

i would think that a company that makes robos would have enough money for that.

[@nomaschalupas2453]

also china already had a programed robot playing tennis againts humans in 2013. A little more work to what they had last year would easily make what was in this video possible.

[@edwardlee374]

the final score was 9/11 illuminate confirmed

[@richmond2921]

@AimBot 9/11 was the incident that happened in new york and some ppl spell it illuminate-(illuminatee).

[@itsnottimetostop4462]

@AimBot he was memeing.

[@itsnottimetostop4462]

@@richmond2921 no one spells it like that unless they're uneducated on the topic/joking.

[@LEJapproach]

It's referring to the Porsche 911 of course 😉

[@helmopape637]

Now it´s 2020 and I start to believe these images...hard to acknowledge this is on KZbin since 2014

[@ChristopherChavez]

Real or fake? Doesn't matter. It was a dope ad and definitely grabbed my attention. Would love to see a live match like this though.

[@LincolnKing]

Looks pretty fake to me....

[@sergioyanny]

It is false, at the beginning in the comments it tells us that it is only a sample of what robots "could" do in the future.

[@mhayama]

fake, for sure. the only robot able to do this is Forpheus, from Omron. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWq6oaiXosqNZrM

[@psykad3lic]

Can you post a NON edited video of the dual? I came here to watch a Table Tennis match, not this nonsense. Also fire the director and the creative control manager. kthanksbye.

[@sirus4294]

Yep!

[@RacoonProds]

I think you don't understand that without edits, there's no video. Do you really think they played a real match? it's all just editing and CGI.

[@Meteorotaki]

What you would see is a robot failing over and over because there are zero camera tracking the ping pong ball

[@ScottOlsenctrlbreak]

RacoonProds Umm... what? There is likely NO CGI in this video, at least none regarding the robot. Perhaps some dramatic lens flares or other such BS.

[@psykad3lic]

RacoonProds Are you an idiot? this isnt a trailer for a movie, this is an representation of the capabilities of this Robot, which I don't doubt by the way. All I am saying is they could have done this presentation a lot better. For the Hype they put out, they didn't deliver. For my self and thousands of other watching this video and obviously clicking the dislike button, its quite evident the community wanted a proper match, not this over dramatic cut scenes of what looks like scripted/edited/false representation of a proposed table tennis match between the worlds best table tennis player and most advanced robotic arm. Like Robot news said, "a nice commercial, but not a real ping pong match"

[@Etha_Wulf]

ich liebe diese Werbung. Die schaue ich gerne an.

[@rolletroll2338]

The best was the end. But this video didn ´t deserve so many dislikes....

[@amusementmagazine]

The end is even *more* Fake, as it uses 3D balls (and I think 3D robots)...

[@firecloud77]

STOP changing the camera angle every freaking 1/4th SECOND!!!! ANNOYING AS HELL. THUMBS DOWN.

[@4xdblack]

Freddie Wong could totally beat that robot..

[@Cris-kb5mo]

1994: In 2020, we will have robots that can beat humans in table tennis! 2020: Flying cars...

[@Linkage1992]

I was really looking forward to a live match. They really dropped the ball on this one (no pun intended).

[@somzer]

If I could actually watch the "match" I would be sooo happy.

[@blaezn]

I know, right? You really never see a complete volley in the whole damn video. Yet there's like 50,000 cuts.

[@sapfire2]

I want to see Kuka Robot vs Kuka Robot.

[@tommyvongchantha]

+1

[@rafaelvalle3347]

Tommy_v han mm r ser rrrd33eeedrtdr vueno ablare esoañol esto no que dara asi soy r345

[@sscamc]

That'll just be like pong set up so the dot goes back and forth indefinitely :l

[@ZSchrink]

One of the most ridiculous and fun things I have seen in a while HAHAHAHA Good show all around :D

[@Fifa4miLife]

Stop moving the camera I CANT SEE ANYTHING

[@whiterottenrabbit]

But shaking the camera and use fast cuts so people can't see shit is the new hype!

[@hanspeter2210]

yeah, if you just could make a regular version with a static camera like a normal table tennis match, that'd be great!

[@Gambit58]

Super impressive way to promote the robot! Bravo KUKA!

[@Amin-tn1zi]

I think this clip more than every thing shows the difference between human and machine that I hope lasts for ever and it is CREATIVITY

[@bootchoo96]

I don't know why is everyone freaking out, they edited it like a "movie" or short film, I had, whatsoever, no problem watching the video.

[@DLundgren22]

The problem is the company teased the video as if it was going to be a real match between man and robot. Instead it's a staged, dramatized video that gives us no real sense of whether the robot is even actually capable of playing the game.

[@NoTeaBaggers]

The camera work on this is awful - fairly sure I am watching cgi. I would appreciate a nice centered still camera so that I can see if this is true. I am giving this vid a big thumbs down.

[@3GreyLeaves]

The reason the camera isn't still is because it's fake but even tho it's fake, you can still appreciate the work they put in to make it seem believable.

[@NoTeaBaggers]

***** I cannot "appreciate" anything as I cannot correlate the "movement" of the robot to that of the human. All I see is fast / then slow camera work that jumps from one spot to the other. I know see the video is put up by the manufacturer of the robot, not a 3rd party who independently may have been impressed. My suggestion to Kuka Robot: if you believe in your product give us a demonstration in real time with at least 20 second clips from one camera. Anyone using Hollywood type images "pulled" along by a computer camera can make this type of video. And for now 7,745 viewers apparently agree.

[@RockGodFuck]

NoTeaBaggers So tell me about your businesses. Kuka is one of the leading developers of robotics with a huge market share. With your great ability on advertising I assume your company is world leading? All the keyboard warriors here. You don't even seem to understand the difference between a tech demo and advertisement but sitting on a higher horse than a company like this? Jeez gimme a break

[@JaconSamsta]

Tagæyan They hyped the video as the ultimate battle between a professional Ping Pong player and Machine and all we get is a crappy montage that looks like a CGI at some, if not most, parts. If I were interested in such a robot this is the last thing that would convince me, a real showdown without slow motion (or slow motion in a repeat) would have done a better job of showing the speed and accuracy of this machine. This is not an ad targeted at an easily impressed audience since nobody who would use such an add to judge a product should be remotely interested (and far less capable) in buying such a machine. Also this is not a tech demo as it doesn't show off what this machine is capable off due to both the weird presentation (constant camera shift, slow motion etc) and the probable use of CGI. So your statment: "You don't even seem to understand the difference between a tech demo and advertisement" is out of place anyways since it is neither. And since it is neither they could have at least given us what we expected. Also good job using the ad hominem fallacy.

[@RockGodFuck]

TheBernhard100 Look someone who wasted 10 minutes of his life to write a paragraph arguing about a simple ad. It's an ad end of story I didn't even read most of your comment. I feel sorry for you, if it's sunny I would suggest leaving your chair for a few minutes :(

[@BluntInnit]

i wanna see the outtake where the robot arm smashed the table then enslaved humanity and destroyed the world

[@DasKloputzer]

The robot killed the editor and uploaded the video itself

[@w1z4rd9]

max wtf lol

[@mackenzierynebagtong8549]

Too far

[@thedrifter3938]

Know Won Too far.

[@MajorDominates]

@@DasKloputzer xD

[@Neyrotropin]

Это лучшая рекламная кампания в мире после Кока-Колы. Кука, вперёд!!

[@LexBlazer]

Here because of Kuka's delivery of robots to the Tesla gigafactory :)

[@m.morininvestor9920]

I'm in!

[@boarfat3004]

Do they play table tennis where?

[@АгроМагро]

Better see how the kibrg collects a tractor in Belarus: ))))) kzbin.info/www/bejne/poWrY2VjfNqIm9U

[@Alukardo11]

Need more Camera Angles pls

[@ronmiller782]

all this editing makes it look staged honestly, got boring after a minute thirty

[@deantasty7421]

oh, you think its staged?!? yeah nah its boring youre right

[@rsuriyop]

Wow, a top table tennis player who isn't Chinese.

[@chesmaster2ky]

Historically, top notch players have been Scandinavian.

[@M1LKMusic]

***** historically, no one cares. It was a joke.

[@AwokenDemon]

***** epic comeback dude. top notch stuff. you win an internet flavored cookie. unfortunately, your mailing address is invalid (Ft Dumbass is not a registered location) so we cant send it to you. However, we can give you an internet high five...

[@kevinbeitler-akaawol]

After waiting so long for what was hyped up as some really kick ass match, it comes down to this. An ad. I wanted to know more of how the robot was responding to the ball and how it worked. But no. It was basically just an ad.

[@JourneyToTheTruthandTR]

Wonder how many idiots will actually think this was real?

[@ForrestGumpWR]

This is so awesome 😮❤ love this