Tennis: A ball machine with AI !! ...It’s a revolution!

December 9, 2024

Hello friends
My father and I are impatient because we will soon receive a new ball machine... and yes, another one ^^

Pong Bot Tennis Ball Machine

Pong Bot Tennis Ball Machine

But this one is not like the others! It is a new generation of ball machine equipped with AI ... it will be able to adapt in real time to your game: and that, my friends, is a revolution!!


The small flaw of "traditional" ball machines:

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Well, if you don't know yet, my father and I are fans of ball machines, we have three... And we use them very regularly but... But...

  • even though today's ball machines are cool,
  • even if they are programmable,

They do have a small flaw: when you simulate a point, traditional ball machines stupidly do what you tell them to do :

For example :

  1. First ball forehand
  2. Second ball forehand
  3. Third ball backhand
  4. Fourth ball forehand
  5. Fifth backhand ball

And the classic ball machine will follow this sequence no matter how you return the balls ... and it's not always necessarily realistic because depending on how you return, the logic of the game, the replacement and the sequences is not necessarily realistic .

To continue with the example with the previous sequence:

You receive the first ball on the forehand and you return it long line : your replacement will be done accordingly and the second ball that you will receive should be (statistically) more on the backhand side than on the forehand side... However, our programming sends a second ball on the forehand as if the opponent was returning long line again, which is certainly possible but statistically less probable.

So the sequence that we programmed with a classic ball machine is realistic only if we return the shots as they should statistically be... if we return the shots in an unconventional way, the programmed sequence is statistically improbable... in fact we do not necessarily adopt the best habits (in terms of replacement for example)


The big change with AI in the Ball Machine:

The new generation of machine and AI as offered by the Pace S Pro is a game changer:

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  • Imagine a ball machine that adapts its ball based on what you do in real time.
  • Imagine a ball machine that is programmed with conditional logic:
  • If I put myself in such a place, then send me the ball to such a place
  • If I go up to the net, do a long line passing shot
  • Wherever I am, play 2m away from me on my backhand
  • No matter where I am, I alternate between a ball on my backhand and a ball on my forehand 1.50 m away from me.

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I don't know if you're starting to see the madness... we're entering a new dimension of play with this ball machine: we're going to be able to program sequences with conditional logic allowing us to offer adaptive and much more realistic game sequences.

This is exactly what the new Pong Bot machine offers: the PongBot Pace S Pro .

- Equipped with sensors that allow it to precisely locate the player on the field
- Able, thanks to AI, to adapt the way it sends the balls (Zone / Force / Lift / Height / frequency ...)

Depending on the different parameters given to it, the PongBot Pace S Pro revolutionizes the world of tennis ball machines: No, we're not just going to return the ball: we're going to interact with a robot opponent who will make us play in a realistic way.

... Honestly, we were so excited that we took the risk of pre-ordering this machine on Kickstarter, we should receive it soon, and we will do lots of tests, lots of videos, lots of tutorials with this machine which is apparently exceptional.

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