Eh, there's nothing new under the sun. The book A Robot Ping-Pong Player (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/robot-ping-pong-player) contains an anecdote about the robot mistaking Marvin Minsky's head for a ping-pong ball... and taking a swing at him...

See also: https://muq.org/~cynbe/muq/muf3_22.html