Feeder One / robot ball machine / tennis and pickleball
Set the drill. Watch every ball land.
It feeds 150 balls, drives itself along the baseline to change your angles, and its camera tells you what each drill trained. The court behind this glass runs real ball flight: drag, spin and bounce at true court size.
Works with its own buttons or the Feeder app for iPhone and Android. Any hard or clay court, no Wi-Fi needed. Unfold it, press Start.
4.8from 212 pilot players on 14 club courts
Feeder One, either head
$1,490all in
Refundable until it ships. First batch ships May 2027.
Camera mastWatches your feet and returns, then writes the coach's read.
Two-wheel headTennis 30 to 80 mph, 3,000 rpm. Pickleball head 22 to 45 mph.
Clear hopper150 tennis balls or 120 pickleballs. Watch it empty.
Drive baseRuns 14 ft of baseline. 3 hours a charge, 41 lb, folds into a trunk.
Coach's read
Feeding the first balls.
- Lands
- waiting
- Bounces up to
- waiting
- Reaches you at
- waiting
- You run
- waiting
- Errors
- none yet
The machine is choosing its first angle.
Court 3 sheet, this week
4.8212 pilot players rated it after a session. Pilots on 14 club courts since April.
- Dana Reyes 4.0, side to side
Forty minutes and I never picked up a ball. It ran me wider than my hitting partner does.
- Coach Marcus Hill three juniors
I watch feet while it feeds. The read after each set says what my notes used to.
- Priya and Sam Okafor pickleball
Dinks at 16 mph, every one in the kitchen. We drilled resets for an hour.
- Theo Brandt 15, live ball
No two the same. By ball 30 it felt like a match.
Taped to the glass, Courtside Gear Lab, Sept 2026"The first ball machine that makes you move the way a match does. The camera read is the part you'll miss when you go back."
01 / The machine
Feeder One
A ball machine that moves, aims and reads you. It drives along its own baseline between feeds, turns its head to the target, and sets spin with two wheels running at different speeds. $1,490 with either head.
What it does
- Pace
- Tennis 30 to 80 mph. Pickleball 22 to 45 mph. Slower than that, a ball fed from the far baseline can't reach the net.
- Spin
- Up to 3,000 rpm of topspin or slice for tennis, 1,200 rpm for pickleball.
- Moves
- Drives up to 14 ft along its baseline between feeds, so the angle changes, not just the aim.
- Holds
- 150 tennis balls or 120 pickleballs.
- Heads
- Swap the tennis head for the pickleball head by hand. No tools. Both heads: $1,680.
- Battery
- About 3 hours of feeding. Charges in 2.5 hours from a wall outlet.
- Weight
- 41 lb. Folds to fit a car trunk, rolls on its own handle.
- Works with
- Its own buttons, or the Feeder app for iPhone and Android over Bluetooth. Hard, clay and indoor courts.
How it reads you
A wide camera on the mast watches where you stand and where your returns go. After a set it tells you what the drill trained and what to change. On this page the read comes from the simulated feed itself: the landing spots, the bounce heights and how far each ball made you run.
Who makes it
Feeder Robotics is six people in Columbus, Ohio: two former college coaches and four robotics engineers who were tired of picking up balls for each other. Specifications are for the fictional product.
03 / Reserve
$1,490. Hold one for $100
The deposit holds your place in line. It's refundable in full until yours ships, and it comes off the price. The rest is charged only when your machine is boxed.
The terms, plainly
- Change your mind any time before yours ships and the $100 comes back, all of it.
- If a ship date slips by more than 60 days, we write to you, and you can take the deposit back with one reply.
- If Feeder One never ships, every deposit is returned.
- 30 days on your own court once it arrives. Send it back in the box and the whole $1,490 comes back.
- Two-year warranty on the machine, one year on the battery.
- Prices are the fictional product's. This is a demo: there are no payment fields, and nothing is charged or sent.