The Battle of Man and Machine vs.-robot to table tennis world champion, who will win?

Since the advent of the concept of artificial intelligence, whether it has the ability to replace human beings has become a matter of great concern to many people. Seven years ago, the deep blue victory over Kasparov appeared to be a confirmation of this concern. The computational power of human beings is far from the AI opponents, then the athletic ability?

To prove the superiority of its own products, German robot maker Kuka is preparing to hold a table tennis man-Machine war on March 11 this year, with Kuka's new product KR agilus against the German world champion Tim Port. KR Agilus is a single arm robot, Kuka says it has excellent accuracy.

From the game promo video we can see that KR Agilus is able to make a very fancy gesture (for a robot) with a pat. Table tennis for instantaneous response requirements are high, AI at this point no problem, plus it will not feel tired, perhaps Tim Port will usher in bitter.

Germany Kuka is the world's high-end industrial robot manufacturer, will formally in Shanghai, China to set up its first plant in Asia, scheduled to open on March 11, 2014.

Tim Port (Timo Boll), a famous German table tennis player. He began playing at the age of 4, 1997, 1998 European Youth Championship men's singles championship, 2002, Bohr defeated Liqin and Linghui, won the table Tennis World Cup singles championship. January 2003 man table tennis player world ranked first throne. 2005 World Cup Singles championship, 2008 Liege World Cup runner-up, the cumulative 5 Open men's Singles championship, 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Bohr led the German team runner-up, 2012 British Liverpool World Cup men's singles runner-up.