Swingshot Tennis Robot

Japan's been leading the way with robots for awhile now it seems. This is a very cool one, though, for us tennis players. It comes from Astro Research, this thing actually swings at the ball with a racquet instead of the cannon effect of normal ball machines.

Not knowing exactly how this thing operates, or what you're able to do with it (can't read Japanese), it seems to me that this would provide a much more realistic practice experience. With traditional ball machines, there is very little spin, the ball sort of comes at you in a flat and abnormal way (hard to articulate). If you're able to adjust the racquet for different spins, I can see this being a really useful machine. It would be more like a hitting partner and less like a ball machine.

CHECK OUT THE SWINGSHOT IN ACTION IN THIS VIDEO

From Astro Research and GearCrave

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