The Butterfly Amicus 3000 ping pong robot

For $2,300 you could probably pay someone to lob ping pong balls at you all day, but we have a feeling thatit's going to be the table tennis pros who end up investing in a Butterfly Amicus 3000 Robot. You can set it to fire up to 100 balls per minute, help you practice on drills (yeah, ping pong players have drills), or to keep you on your toes and shoot more randomly; the only thing the Butterfly Amicus 3000 won't do is love you back, ok?

[Via Near Near Future]

[Permanent4 @ Dec 19th 2005 12:07AM]

Run, Forrest!

[tazmo @ Dec 19th 2005 12:07AM]

so you can practice beer pong with this thing? awesome!

[Bill @ Dec 19th 2005 12:07AM]

I wrote one of the manufacturers (Newgy) about a Robot machine like this several years ago, but he claimed the arc might not work with the 3-foot high nets at the World Beer Pong Championship. Has anyone had any luck with such Robot machines for beer pong? Newgy's prices seem the most attractive on the market for such a device.
http://www.wildmanproduction.com/vegas/world-beer-pong-slideshow-2004.html
http://www.wildmanproduction.com/philly-beer-pong/sarge-pong.html
http://www.wildmanproduction.com/BeerPong/kainopong.html

[Goonie @ Dec 19th 2005 12:07AM]

There are some rooms around europe designed for such robots. The room is on a very minor slope which you cannot feel and the balls go the the corner of the room to be sucked up back to the robot. This would be ideal for beer pong. With the current breed or robots, the ball would bounce over the net. A multiball net though is around 2 metres high with could do the task.