Table tennis-playing robot that can sense you getting frustrated and lower its skill level

Japanese robotics company Omron and its table-tennis-playing bot are back at CES to serve up loads of fresh new tech. This year, though Omron may have reincarnated its crowd-pleasing table tennis bot, called Forpheus, the company managed to up the ante with a new emotional recognition system that gauges players' frustration level and their skill. In addition to being fun, Omron wants Forpheus to showcase its work in AI, computer vision and robotics. Its system, which watches players closely as they battle the bot in ping pong, has the capability of reading a players' face and even their heart rate and then interpreting that information to make inferences on skill and state-of-mind. Forpheus (pictured above) can reach to a volley using computer vision.