{"id":23202,"date":"2018-11-07T09:11:16","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T07:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/?p=23202"},"modified":"2018-11-07T09:11:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T07:11:16","slug":"this-table-tennis-robot-is-here-to-replace-your-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/this-table-tennis-robot-is-here-to-replace-your-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"This Table-Tennis Robot is Here to Replace Your Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While friends and loved-ones do provide support, comfort, and people to share memories with, what they <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> provide is a never-ceasing supply of ping-pong companionship. Introducing, the\u00a0The Butterfly Prime Amicus.<\/p>\n<p>This Skynet-esque, scary-looking machine is a table-tennis robot created\u00a0by former international table tennis player Richard Prause. Coming in at a price of $2,200 (around R31,000 \u2013 a small price to pay for unlimited fun), the Amicus is controlled via an app which comes with 20-pre-loaded drills, and a host of other features to keep you busy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"arve-wrapper\" data-mode=\"normal\" data-provider=\"youtube\" id=\"arve-tJmeqx6FWHY\" style=\"max-width:702px;\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">\n<div class=\"arve-embed-container\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.250000%\"><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/tJmeqx6FWHY?iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;playsinline=1&amp;autoplay=0\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen class=\"arve-iframe fitvidsignore\" frameborder=\"0\" name sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/tJmeqx6FWHY?iv_load_policy=3&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=1&#038;playsinline=1&#038;autoplay=0\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It can fling out 120 balls per minute and adapt the speed, spin, and trajectory to give the user a challenging ping-pong gauntlet to navigate. You can string several of the drills together, or through its \u2018cluster memory\u2019 setting, randomise them to give yourself a serious workout.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23203\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Butterfly-Prime-Amicus-Table-Tennis-Robot-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Butterfly-Prime-Amicus-Table-Tennis-Robot-1.jpg 800w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Butterfly-Prime-Amicus-Table-Tennis-Robot-1-300x170.jpg 300w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Butterfly-Prime-Amicus-Table-Tennis-Robot-1-768x434.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Want to get to your best table tennis form, but don\u2019t want any annoying banter to go along with it? The\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff4f4f;\"><a style=\"color: #ff4f4f;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Butterfly-Wireless-Bluetooth-Pre-Programmed-Professional\/dp\/B07FGK5LRP\/\">Butterfly Amicus Prime<\/a><\/span> can help you out!<\/p>\n<p>But, for us mere mortals (who don&#8217;t have an excess of money to spend frivolously on robots), you can check out the <span style=\"color: #ff4f4f;\"><a style=\"color: #ff4f4f;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/search?search=table%20tennis&amp;utm_source=blog.pricecheck.co.za&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=PriceCheck%20Blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">best table tennis deals on PriceCheck<\/a><\/span>, including bats, tables, and equipment!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/search?search=table%20tennis&amp;utm_source=blog.pricecheck.co.za&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=PriceCheck%20Blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21641\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Buttons_ViewOffers.png\" alt=\"view offers\" width=\"288\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Buttons_ViewOffers.png 550w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Buttons_ViewOffers-300x57.png 300w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Buttons_ViewOffers-536x105.png 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who needs friends when you&#8217;ve got the Butterfly Prime Amicus?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":23204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2425,3560,3940,3942,3943,2042,2961,3941],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Table-Tennis-robot-header.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23202"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23205,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23202\/revisions\/23205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}