Reviews
Sportbot tennis robot: A personal experience and Technical review
Recently, I had the chance to test the Sportbot tennis robot, an advanced training tool designed to replicate the dynamics of a human opponent. This review combines my personal experience with technical insights, leveraging my background in engineering and technical components of the tennis game.
Sportbot - a moving ball machine
The Sportbot is a moving tennis ball machine developed by engineer and tennis player Toni Ulcar in Slovenia.
My friend Henrik Wallensten alerted me about this moving ball machine and sent me a video. That got me curious, so I got in touch with Toni and asked him if he wanted to do a podcast about his invention. And today, the podcast is live, and you can hear Toni talk about the Sportbot, the origin story, what makes it different, and more.
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Founder of Sportbot: "Our device greatly improves tennis training"
Sportbot is a device designed by the Slovenian Toni Ulčar in 2020 during the corona virus pandemic. In his desire for a tennis partner during the lockdown, he invented a machine that enables a tennis player to do excellent tennis training without a physical partner.
Innovation that is changing the game
The covid-19 epidemic has brought many challenges and constraints, but difficult conditions tend to create the best conditions for innovation. This was also the case with Toni Ulčar, then still a student of mechanical engineering and an enthusiastic tennis player. It all started when he didn’t have a partner to play with due to restrictions and started testing the tennis rackets that were on the market at the time.