Meet Ace, the table-tennis robot that can beat elite players

In this episode: 00:45 The table-tennis robot that can mix it with the pros Research Article: Dürr et al. News and Views: Robot can beat elite players at table tennis Video: This robot can beat you at table tennis 14:13 Research Highlights Nature: Venus’s impenetrable haze could be made of cosmic dust Nature: Graves reveal plague’s inequitable toll 16:21 Why physicists can’t agree on the strength of Big G Nature: How big is Big G? Mystery deepens after ten-year effort to measure gravity’s strength Research Article: Schlamminger et al.

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This episode is 26:10 long.

This episode was published on Apr 22, 2026.

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