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Takku

A desktop table tennis robot that recognizes a ball with a camera and returns it on a tabletop.

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Takku table tennis robot

Overview

Takku recognizes a table tennis ball using a camera and returns the ball on a tabletop. The project included both perception and physical robot system design.

System Design

The robot arm and body were custom designed and built with an emphasis on human-like motion and appearance.

Citation

Please cite this project using the following BibTeX entry.

@inproceedings{tsubaki2025tabletennis,
  title = {Takku: A Desktop Table Tennis Player Robot Modeled on Close-to-the-table Play Style},
  author = {Tsubaki, Michitoshi and Yanokura, I. and Kojima, K. and Okada, K.},
  booktitle = {The 43rd Annual Conference on Robotics Society of Japan},
  year = {2025},
  note = {Presented (Oral)},
  url = {https://github.com/Michi-Tsubaki/ping-pong-robot}
}