Best Ping Pong Robot (2023 Update)

OUR TOP PICK

The choice of table tennis champions the world over, the H2W Touch Pro is widely acknowledged as being one of the best ping pong robots available and demand for it is such that almost as soon as it hits the shelf of any store, it sells out. If you want to be the best player, you need the best robot. And that robot is the H2W.

Controlled via a simple touchpad interface, the H2W is easy to program and tailor to your exact training specifications and requirements. Whatever you need on the ping pong table, this robot can, and will, do it. 

With a vast array of speed and spin choices and the ability to target any spot on a table, the H2W will hammer your game into shape by allowing you to concentrate on the better elements of your game while ridding yourself of the bad habits that hold and have held, you back. 

As easy to set up as it is to program, the H2W is built to aid you on every step of your journey toward ping pong perfection.

Pros

• A straight forward, simple to use touchpad controller means that you can start playing within minutes of setting up, and switching on, the H2W. This robot is all about improving your game. Nothing else matters.
• The H2W comes with its own catch net and ball recycling system and takes care of the whole ping pong show so that you don’t have to. All you have to do is switch it on and play. 
• It doesn’t discriminate between professionals and amateurs, the H2W is a multi-level table tennis master. Which is why it’s the only ping pong robot that you’ll ever want or need.

Cons

• What we said about the H2W being the only ping pong robot you’ll ever want?  At the price, you’ll have to pay to train with and play against, this robot we guarantee that you’ll never want to pay for another bot. Ever. Being the best doesn’t come cheap and at nearly two thousand dollars you’ll have to be dedicated to the table to want to spar with the H2W. 

EDITORS CHOICE

Slightly more comfortable (okay, you got us, it’s a LOT more comfortable) on your pocketbook than the H2W is the much more affordable Chaofan 36. A large ball capacity (one hundred and ten when full) and easy to set up and use robot, the Chaofan 36 might seem like a step down from the H2W, but its price puts it firmly within the reach of everyone.

Fully adjustable, the Chaofan 36’’s wired controller allows you to control the speed, frequency, and angle of its delivery, making it a much in demand training machine whatever the level of your ability. 

Having received wide-spread praise across the board, it’s fairly safe to assume that amateurs and professionals alike seem to have fallen for the Chaofan and fallen hard. It might not be draped in the same digital refinery as the H2W, but it does just about everything that the all-singing and all-dancing H2W does. And it does all of it at more than a thousand dollars less than it’s more technologically advanced competition.

Pros

• That price tag. You get a lot of machine for less than two hundred and fifty dollars. 
• The Chaofan has found its own audience and built its own fanbase due to doing what it does so well. Reviews gush about the simplicity of the Chaofan’s set up and how easy it is to use.

Cons

• It’s a good thing that it’s an easy to use machine as the Chaofan’s instructions only come in Chinese. So, if you can’t read Mandarin, you’ll have to figure it out for yourself. 
• There have been a few complaints about the Chaofan’s durability, with users noting that both the release gate and oscillating motor have a tendency to fail with heavy usage. Which would tend to suggest that there might be a reason for its user-friendly price tag.
• The Chaofan is a lot like pineapple on pizza. You’ll either love it or hate it and you won’t know which side of the fence you’re on until you try it.

BEST VALUE

With a lower capacity than the Chaofan but a higher price tag, the Newgy Robo Pong is the machine for the player who doesn’t want to pay out the H2W but is happier to pay a little more for their ping pong robot than aforementioned Chaofan.

The Newgy is another fully controllable analog machine that allows you to gradually, as your game picks up pace and gets better, alter the intensity, speed, and delivery at which it fires its balls. An intermediary machine that has one foot in the best of both worlds inhabited by the preceding robots on this list, the RoboPong 1040 is a diligent taskmaster that keeps you focused entirely on your game.

Looks aren’t everything and while it isn’t the sexiest model available, the Robo-Pong is the perfect playing partner that allows your ping pong game to develop at a pace that you’re comfortable and happy with. Which is exactly what you want from a ping pong robot. To learn, develop, and get better at the game you love in your own time.

Pros

• At just under five hundred dollars, it’s a realistically priced robot that improves your game and gives you a home-based work-out. 
• Easy to set up and use, the sheer volume of its settings means that the Robo-Pong will keep challenging you to up your game and keep up with it every time you switch it on and use it.

Cons

• The price. Granted, it’s more realistically priced than some models, but it’s still a lot of money if you’re not serious about your ping pong game. Are you committed to the game enough to pay five Benjamin’s to play it?
• It would appear if the reviews are to be believed, that the Robo-Pong has a tendency to jam just as you’re getting into the swing of things. And once it’s jammed, it isn’t as easy to clear said jam as it is to set up and use it.

RUNNER UP

One of the big boys of the ping pong robot world, the Zxmoto is a rapid-fire monster of a machine that stands tall and makes sure you only play it on one setting; your absolute best.

With a high ball capacity and its own catch net, this analog robot allows you to control your game and keep it a speed that suits you. Easy to load, it’s a faster machine that’ll challenge beginners and long time players alike. 

The extra cable length of the controller makes it easier to tailor your game to your needs without interrupting the flow of your training session. With the controller in easy reach, you can push your self harder or ease up on the ping pong throttle with the push of a button.

And price-wise, it fits right in the middle of our second and third choices on the robot list, and you know what they say about being middle, don’t you? We don’t remember exactly what it is either, but we do know that it’s something about being just right. And that’’s exactly what the Zxmoto is. It’s just right.

Pros

• The longer length of its analog control cable lends it a degree of immediate programmability that its competition lacks. Your game is literally in your own hands. We kind of like that. 
• Simple to maneuver and easy to set up with a one hundred and twenty ball magazine, a catch net and a three-second discharge rate at even the lowest speed setting, the Zxmoto is no slouch and it’ll keep you on your toes. A chance to improve your ping game and get fit at the same time? Sounds almost too good to be true, doesn’t it? Regardless of how it sounds, the Zxmoto does exactly that.
• We like that just under four hundred dollar price tag, We like it a lot.

Cons

• The Zxmoto isn’t exactly small. It is, like we said, one of the big boys of the ping pong robot word, so finding somewhere to store it and keep it safe might be a problem if you’re not blessed with space and don’t have the room to swing a cat. Not that, you understand, we condone using a feline to measure the size of a room. We don’t, it’s just an expression. But you get the point we’re trying to make. The Zxmoto is big for a ping pong robot. Really, really big.
• Like a lot of table tennis machines, the Zxmoto has a tendency to jam. However, unlike a lot of ping pong robots, it’s easy to clear when, and if, the balls get stuck.

RUNNER UP

Last, but not least, it’s our pick the ping pong robot bunch, the iPong Original Table Tennis Trainer Robot. Designed to push you to your limits and beyond, the iPong proves that good things really do come in small packages.

Don’t be deceived by its size though, with one hundred and ten ball capacity and remotely controlled speed and oscillation settings, the iPong is the original table tennis robotic wolf in sheep’s clothing. 

Aimed at all levels of players, the iPong is infamous for helping beginners to quickly step up to the next level of the game and making sure that professionals keep their skill set sharp and tight. And it does all of that at a fraction of the cost of its rivals.

Pros

• Small, unobtrusive, and fully controllable, the iPong has forged a solid, well-earned reputation as the best way to improve your ping pong game without a partner.
• We’re still trying to figure out how something so tiny can have the kind of capacity that the iPong does. We know it’s got something to do with precision engineering, but we can’t quite figure it out.  Good magicians never reveal their secrets and neither, it would seem, does the iPong.   
• It. Is. Less. Than. One. Hundred. And. Fifty. Dollars. How did iPong get this robot to do all that it does at that price? We can’t figure it out, but we don’t care. At that price, it’s almost like iPong is giving this robot away.

Cons

• You’re going to need a few accessories to play against and train with the iPong. Like a net and some balls, which aren’t included with the robot. So you’re going to have to spend a little extra to get all of the things that you need to play against it.
• It doesn’t have directional control. If you want to change the direction of play, you have to do it manually. And by manually we mean that you’re going to have to actually move the unit by hand.
• When it gets down to the last ten balls or so, thanks to its design, they might fire or they might not. They might just rattle around inside the iPong. That’s just part of its charm. Will the last ten balls fire or won’t they? Who knows?