PONGBOT Desk Tennis Robotic, Moveable Ping Pong Machine, APP Management, 264 Constructed-in Routines, 150-Ball Capability, Customise Spin/Velocity for Solo Coaching & Teaching, One-Yr Guarantee

This is definitely the best table tennis robot for beginner!
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.

Great robot
I want to give a 5 star. It’s a great pingpong robot, easy to set up and pick the things you want to practice. The only thing I don’t like is that Chinese app ( if we buy it in China directly) has more contents such as community that user can share what they use on the robot and there are training videos too. However, the US app doesn’t have any of it except the program for the robot. It does help me practice at home. I highly recommend

Amazing features for this price range.
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.

Did not work at all.
I followed the instructions carefully. The ping pong robot did turn on as the instructions described. I was able to select the kind of strokes I wanted to receive, however, the “start” button did not work. No strokes ever came. I tried many different ways of getting the robot to respond but it never did. It simply didn’t work. Fortunately, I will return it and get my money back. Very disappointing.

The robot is great! It works exactly as I expected. It is very easy to create custom drills in the app and the expected trajectory of the ball is shown. The robot is very consistent and can generate heavy enough spin to practice.It can generate Backspin and topspin in the same exercise and it can also do serves.The only negative thing is that the head height can’t be changed between balls. It makes it not possible to mix serves and normal balls in the same exercise and it makes it a bit more difficult to mix short and long balls.But overall, great quality and great functionality for the price. It will replace my Tibhar cheap robot.The robot was sent from China and custom fees were charged. I informed the seller and he refunded me the custom fees.

Setting it up is more difficult than the online videos, but one set up, it great.The remote that come with it is not very clear, download the app on your phone.Custom drills are hard to set up. There should be a booklet or a Web page showing how you can set up the balls go drop where you want on the table.Overall, great machine for the money.

Very pleased so far