The publicist pointed out Nick Cannon, at that very moment serving a ping-pong ball.

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Her surgeon divided her stomach into two pouches, one the size of a ping-pong ball.

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"That truck was battered around like a ping-pong ball, " Wind said.

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His company has developed motion-capture software that doesn't require the "ping-pong-ball-bodysuit" worn by actors in movies like Beowulf.

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Sunday's storms sheared off trees and utility poles in parts of northern New England and dropped ping pong ball-sized hail in New York state.

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Saracens seemed determined to kick the leather off the ball, and a lengthy period of aerial ping-pong drew a response of jeers, whistles and slow handclaps from their own supporters.

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After some literal hand-holding with a human to understand the basics of a ping-pong swing, a TUD robot can gradually abstract those motions and return the ball in situations beyond the initial example.

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