An upgraded robot developed by General Electric Fanuc and Nuvation Research can beat most human air hockey players, its developers claim.

A video system that tracks the puck’s position sends coordinates to a special PC board every 10 milliseconds. So far, the robot has defeated every human opponent when running in 32-bit mode, averaging three times as many goals as human players. The algorithm’s success resulted from revising its strategy whenever a goal was scored against it.