The PongBot Aura is a unique AI-powered training robot engineered to assist you in playing tennis, pickleball, and padel from a single machine.
At the core of Aura is a patented adaptive wheel track and auto-calibrated ball feed that physically reconfigures to support all three sports, compatible with balls from 40 to 80mm. You can choose the desired sport from the companion app.
For tennis, Aura delivers full-court topspin, backspin, and flat shots at match speed. For pickleball, it drills dink precision and kitchen placement, mirroring real-game pressure on every rep. For padel, it simulates authentic side-wall and back-wall rebounds, sharpening read and timing on every angle. Over-the-air updates unlock baseball, softball, and beyond without new hardware.
Powered by a 10 TOPS AI processor and 120fps dual-cam capture, Aura delivers an intelligent coaching system. Its real-time motion analysis tracks grip pressure, swing path, body rotation, and follow-through, correcting form before the next ball is served. LLM-powered voice control understands natural language: say “give me a fast cross-court with heavy topspin,” for example, and Aura will execute this request, hands-free.
Recovery Trigger adapts feed timing to the player’s pace and progress, while Match Challenge replicates the unpredictability of a live opponent. Pro-Match Replication deconstructs uploaded match footage and recreates the exact shot patterns with the same zones, same speed, and same spin.
At just 7 kg with a five-hour hot-swappable battery and 120-ball capacity, Aura is easy to bring with you. The system includes more than 1,000 built-in training drills across different sports and training objectives, allowing you to start practice sessions quickly. You can also create fully customized training programs by defining parameters for each individual shot, including, ball placement, launch speed, spin type, and launch frequency.
The AI-powered Spotter vision module is designed to enhance the capabilities of PongBot Aura. The modular Spotter detaches from Aura for player-vs-player sessions and is fully compatible with the Pace S Series. With a 120fps sensor and 180° wide-angle lens, it functions as an AI smart referee, auto highlight editor, and smart training performance report generator on court. It can track ball trajectory (speed, path, landing position), player positioning (court coordinates), and human motion (skeletal keypoint tracking) then provide player analysis for shot distribution and placement, movement patterns and footwork tracking, and motion structure based on skeletal data.
Spotter’s core role is to add perception, analysis, and feedback to the training process and combine with Aura to serve as an intelligent training system with real-time awareness and decision-making capabilities. Spotter can operate independently as well, or as an integrated system with Aura, supporting both training and match scenarios.
The Pong Aura sells for an MSRP of US$999 but is on for an introductory price of US$499.