PONGBOT Table Tennis Robot, Portable Ping Pong Machine, APP Control, 264 Built-in Routines, 150-Ball Capacity, Customize Spin/Speed for Solo Training & Coaching, One-Year Warranty

My current USATT rating is about 1600 and I am aspiring to reach 2000 in the coming year or so. This robot is God sent. It is absolutely brilliant and gives you a lot of flexibility in creating custom drills. Solid built, most days I spend about two hours on this robot hitting over 5000 balls. I have used this robot for almost 6 months now and I strongly recommend this for players at all levels.

No other mass-produced robot under $1000 allows creating custom drills and from a well-designed app, no less.The drills can be an array of up to 5 shots that can be positioned around the table. It's easy to set up a Falkenberg drills, for example. There are a couple of things to note that aren't clear from the description. The height/trajectory of the head can be set via the app, but it cannot change within a drill. So, one drill has one common trajectory for each shot. That means you can't really set up a serve, a push and a loop in one drill. I have been able to set up underspin pushes and topspin loops in a single drill, no problem. But short serves require that the trajectory of the head be pointing downwards. That being said, because this is a tabletop robot that can be placed anywhere, it can replicate serves better than other (often much more expensive) robots that are permanently mounted at one height at the center of the table. Also, one drill can have two spins only, meaning topspin and backspin. Sidespin is possible by manually rotating the head, but this is not automated so you'll have that side/topspin or side/underspin until you manually rotate it again.The shot quality is great, no complaints. The build quality is impressive and the robot has yet to jam after 10+ hours of use.If the manufacturer is reading this, I would like to make a suggestion. The more expensive PongBot models have automated trajectory and head rotation for sidespin so you can get all possible spins and trajectories in one drill. However, they are mounted in the center of the table to allow for ball recycling. The Nova is far more versatile because it can be placed anywhere on the table, making for more realistic serves, counterlooping, etc. Many robot users don't really care about ball recycling. A human multi-ball feeder doesn't have constant ball recycling so why would I need that in a robot? 150 balls is plenty of workout before needing a break and I could easily rig up an extension to the Nova's basket to allow for another 100 balls if I need that. I'd like to see a "Nova Pro" model that is a tabletop unit that has the automated rotation/trajectory of the more expensive PongBots. I'd pay good money for that.

The bit works as intended. One comment is that the frequency is in percentage instead of seconds. So not really intuitive.Shipping is not one day as advertised. Hence removing one star.

I have to say, for a Chinese grown product, this is pretty good. The value for money is quite good, as well. I use this to practice my game and improve my skills, and it works well for that because the software has a lot of customizability. Someday I may upgrade to the $1500 model, but this is hard to beat at the price. If you are on the fence and are willing to play with the Chinese style interface a bit, I say buy this and spend a few minutes getting familiar with it.

The media could not be loaded. This bot is definitely the best bot in sub-400 dollar mark. It is really well built. The greatest thing about it is the consistency of each shot. Any other sub-100 or 200 USD bot has way worst consistency in term of precision of each shot. The software has a wide range of setting, angle, spin, frequency and speed. It also allows you to set multiple combo and execute them either in sequence or randomly. It is about 150 USD more expensive than the other similar design bot, like the S101, HP07, but those are way worst in terms of configuration of each shot, making than much more difficult to use. I live in a small apartment and only have a mini table tennis table, but I can use this bot with the small table without any issue. See my video with random configuration of 3 combos at different angles.

The so-called "Operation Manual," written in Chinese English, with usage instructions and diagrams that are so small that you literally need a magnifying glass to read them, is absolutely useless in instructing you how to use the robot or even how to get it to throw balls. And instead of providing instructions on how to use the accompanying remote control, the "manual" forces you to download an app to use with your cell phone, circumventing the use of the remote control.In addition, the instructions that appear in the window of the remote control are, again, so tiny they are all but impossible to read, and the steps required to use the robot are so convoluted that three of us spent over an hour trying to decipher them. The result: we could only use the robot intermittently, on one setting, before it shut off, and then we had to spend another ten minutes trying to get it to shoot balls again.So unless you're a computer nerd or have nothing better to do with your life than spend hours trying to figure out how to use this thing, I suggest you buy another robot from a different company.

Mechanics are similar to most other robots, but this feels very well made. The app is a game changer and makes other robots that cost twice as much feel obsolete. Remote is more or less useless.Wishlist for app designers/developers:1. Single ball test to help refine the combo/drill2. Lower frequency for serve practice3. Countdown 3-5 seconds before drill starts. Audible app sound would be great at start and at end of drill.4. Quick start without having to create a combo.5. More randomness within a single drill combo6. Capability to delete/remove balls within a combo (currently, if you go from ball 1 to ball 2, you can't delete ball 2).7. Larger Start/Stop button