 It's kind of been a while since I've played. I'm going to be really embarrassed if I can't, so fingers crossed. Hey, it's Dami from The Verge and we are here at CES 2018 with Forfius, an artificial intelligence powered ping pong robot from Omron. I'm here with Mike Chen and he's going to tell me all about this wonderful machine. So clearly this is probably not something that I could have in my house. Can you explain what do you see this kind of technology being applied for? The ping pong itself is not really... We don't sell ping pong robots to the consumer market. What we are trying to do is share our vision for how technology like this in AI, in robotics, in sensing can be applied to real societal challenges and improving human skill. The artificial intelligence in this case is working in conjunction with sensing technologies. There's three different cameras inside the head there to recognize the person, the player, as well as the ball, right? The ball location as well as how the player is moving. And as you play, it'll actually adjust to increase the rallies with you. So you mentioned that the robot is able to determine the player's skill level. When you played against the robot, how did it determine? I just got to play it this morning right before you got here. And I haven't played in like 15 years and I was like at 45. So it's only it goes from zero to 100. So 45. Yeah, sounds good. I'm sure I'm sure you'd be much better. I'm really nervous. I don't know what how good I'll be. We'll see. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm okay. What's my skill level? Oh my god, I'm so good. So I don't know if you guys can hear, but this robot is speaking in a really high pitched voice to give me encouraging messages. And the LED screen in the net actually flashes really nice messages like this really is fun. I agree. Thank you. Oh my god. Oh my goodness. The level is getting higher. So that just happened. I beat a ping pong robot. Well, not really. It took me several tries and I learned a lot about myself through this. And yeah, it was a really good experience. I'd do it again. My level went up to 72. I started at around 55 and through hard work and determination, I improved. So thank you, Porfias.
 It's kind of been a while since I've played.
 I'm going to be really embarrassed if I can't, so fingers crossed.
 Hey, it's Dami from The Verge and we are here at CES 2018 with Forfius, an artificial intelligence
 powered ping pong robot from Omron.
 I'm here with Mike Chen and he's going to tell me all about this wonderful machine.
 So clearly this is probably not something that I could have in my house.
 Can you explain what do you see this kind of technology being applied for?
 The ping pong itself is not really...
 We don't sell ping pong robots to the consumer market.
 What we are trying to do is share our vision for how technology like this in AI, in robotics,
 in sensing can be applied to real societal challenges and improving human skill.
 The artificial intelligence in this case is working in conjunction with sensing technologies.
 There's three different cameras inside the head there to recognize the person, the player,
 as well as the ball, right?
 The ball location as well as how the player is moving.
 And as you play, it'll actually adjust to increase the rallies with you.
 So you mentioned that the robot is able to determine the player's skill level.
 When you played against the robot, how did it determine?
 I just got to play it this morning right before you got here.
 And I haven't played in like 15 years and I was like at 45.
 So it's only it goes from zero to 100.
 So 45.
 Yeah, sounds good.
 I'm sure I'm sure you'd be much better.
 I'm really nervous.
 I don't know what how good I'll be.
 We'll see.
 I'm doing it.
 I'm doing it.
 I'm doing it.
 I'm doing it.
 I'm doing it.
 I'm doing it.
 I'm doing it.
 I'm doing it.
 I'm doing it.
 I'm doing it.
 I'm doing it.
 I'm okay.
 What's my skill level?
 Oh my god, I'm so good.
 So I don't know if you guys can hear, but this robot is speaking in a really high pitched
 voice to give me encouraging messages.
 And the LED screen in the net actually flashes really nice messages like this really is fun.
 I agree.
 Thank you.
 Oh my god.
 Oh my goodness.
 The level is getting higher.
 So that just happened.
 I beat a ping pong robot.
 Well, not really.
 It took me several tries and I learned a lot about myself through this.
 And yeah, it was a really good experience.
 I'd do it again.
 My level went up to 72.
 I started at around 55 and through hard work and determination, I improved.
 So thank you, Porfias.