TOMORROW’S WORLD
Following last issue’s badminton-playing robot (www.snipca.com/56092), here’s HITTER mastering table tennis. It’s been built by scientists at the University of California, who say it uses “hierarchical decomposition that separates high-level trajectory planning from low-level whole-body control execution”. Or, in other words, it has a mean forehand. Watch at www. snipca.com/56269.