{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/0185cea5-9e3b-4b82-a887-26f91f92765f/69e8dda517df632b851c37b3?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Meet Ace, the table-tennis robot that can beat elite players","description":"<p><strong>In this episode:</strong></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h2>00:45 The table-tennis robot that can mix it with the pros</h2><p><em>Research Article:&nbsp;</em><a href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10338-5\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Dürr et al.</em></a></p><p><em>News and Views:&nbsp;</em><a href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01045-2\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Robot can beat elite players at table tennis</em></a></p><p><em>Video:&nbsp;</em><a href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01343-9\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>This robot can beat you at table tennis</em></a></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h2>14:13 Research Highlights</h2><p><em>Nature:&nbsp;</em><a href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01212-5\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Venus’s impenetrable haze could be made of cosmic dust</em></a></p><p><em>Nature:&nbsp;</em><a href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01210-7\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Graves reveal plague’s inequitable toll</em></a></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h2>16:21 Why physicists can’t agree on the strength of Big&nbsp;<em>G</em></h2><p><em>Nature:&nbsp;</em><a href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01284-3\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>How big is Big G? Mystery deepens after ten-year effort to measure gravity’s strength</em></a></p><p><em>Research Article:&nbsp;</em><a href=\"https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1681-7575/ae570f\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Schlamminger et al.</em></a></p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://www.nature.com/briefing/signup\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Subscribe to Nature Briefing, an unmissable daily round-up of science news, opinion and analysis free in your inbox every weekday.</em></strong></a></p>","author_name":"Springer Nature Limited"}