PONGBOT OMNI S PRO Robot Review

[The_mfk_Dude]

Thanks for your efforts! And never mind.

My claim was that the ... cannot produce a ball which lands short (why/how come "short"? because the ball comes in a "high trajectory" AND was ejected at low speed, as if you were feeding ducks in a pond) AND carries tremendous spin. I haven't tried your balls settings yet (on a Nova unit) .. but the visual trajectory seems to land long, the Ball Height is very low, AND the speed is high with "5.5". Nothing about it screams slow spinny loop fwiw imho.

Without testing, this balls looks like a normal (challenging heighted at BH=34), fastish, long topspin with yes extreme topspin. And i can create such a ball quality easily on my nova with the a sextuple t35a t35b t35c. And none of these t35-balls are a slow spinny loop.

Ah, as i said, never mind. (i know exactly what the Nova cannot do ... and i still doubt that the Omni can do it so much better, if it has the same ball ejection mechanism)

First: the visuals are as always only an indicator. In reality the ball is shorter.
Second: If I return the ball with the edge of the my racket pointing to the ceiling, the ball lands about a meter over the catching net. That is what I call spin. If you use sidespin, it gets really crazy (and unrealistic)

For the nova: I tried this robot too and there was not a single setting, where it produced decent topspin. I would say, that if I returned a max spin ball on the nova with the same racket angle, not a single ball would fly over the safety net (not even in the higher speed settings)

So once again: the omni is capable to produces enough topspin in slow balls, and unrealistic high sidespin.
When it comes to speedy balls, the spin you can get is absolut unrealistic high.

Today I did 1700 balls in one session and I was very pleased with the consistency of the robot. Very few balls landed in the net. I habe to say, that I have at least 3 different kind of balls. Some are almost new and some are over one year old and well used.
The only problem I had was a lost bluetooth connection or software glitch. After rebooting the robot, everything worked finde again.

 

[The_mfk_Dude]

Second training session with the omni.

Very pleased and I compare it to the amicus prime:
-Easier to see where the next ball will drop, because of the big roboter head
-Consistent and very few errors
- pretty loud if you use plenty spin. Definitely louder than the amicus
-there was a Bluetooth error again. Not much of a problem, but a little annoying
-Balls have good quality and the steps in the spin settings are finer than with the amicus
-the ball catching net is way better, because there are two "strips" of fabric dangling freely which absorb the energy in the incomings balls
-zero jams and I played 1700 balls.

If there will be some software improvements and the machine can handle 1 million balls played, this machine is a killer.

 

[The_mfk_Dude]

A couple of month later and more than 20000 balls played, I am still very satisfied with the hardware.
Absolutely no jams and I use more than 300 balls. The consistency is great too. Spin, speed and placement are spot on (as they were from day one on).
The software is an absolute dissapointment. No updated functions. Zero.
Apart from that I love it and for complex drills, I ordered a nova s pro, which should arrive in a couple of weeks.

 

[TampaBayTableTennis]

thanks for the update! glad to hear you are enjoying the robot and the feedback on the app is interesting.