Hi Jeffrey,
I had used to play with robopong 1050 and changed it for Amicus start recently. I haven’t spent a lot of time with it yet but so far I like Amicus.
What I like about my Amicus Start
- Spin of the ball is not in linear relation to throw speed. (It can create quite spinny balls just over the net)
- Spin setting is done on the panel, I don’t have to move to the robot and do some manual head rotation. It is really easy to set
- Has random scatter to emulate more human like behavior
- Vertical head position can be adjusted.
What I don’t like:
- Shots balls only from the middle of the table (cannot be positioned crosscourt or near the net).
- Not much feautures of drill configuration for the Start version (But as Tom points out no robot can replace human partner anyway so for grinding specific types of your shots it is sufficient).
