{"id":1786,"date":"2025-12-05T13:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T12:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mestoakrobatov.si\/?p=1786"},"modified":"2026-02-09T10:34:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T09:34:32","slug":"sportbot-teniski-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mestoakrobatov.si\/eng\/zgodbe-akrobatov\/sportbot-teniski-robot\/","title":{"rendered":"Sportbot - tennis and fell robot"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The saying \"every crisis is also a seed of opportunity\" is certainly shared by Toni Ul\u010dar.<\/strong> A mechanical engineering student and tennis enthusiast, he had a soft spot for empty tennis courts in times of strict coronation restrictions. Although it was forbidden to socialise, no one said he couldn't play alone. His first choice of teammate was a classic tennis cannon - a device that fires tennis balls by itself. A nice teammate, obedient, quiet and tireless, but also boring and rigid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But could there be another way? A sport as dynamic as tennis needs more movement, more variety, more surprises. In tennis, we cannot progress indefinitely in a rigid way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The beauty of the extra time in the corona was that great ideas could be born. So Toni conceived the original concept at home a tennis cannon that moves around the court to replace playing with teammates.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He built the first prototype in his home room (he's lucky he's a machinist). It didn't work. He tried another way. It didn't work. He surfed the internet, learned new skills and implemented them in manufacturing... When you are alone in your room like this, trying and still trying, the biggest struggles are within yourself - to persevere or to give up? Fortunately, he won that battle, because after many attempts he managed to make the first working prototype.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today he comments: \"Everyone must be responsible for himself first and foremost. Nowadays, knowledge is at everyone's fingertips. If you want it, anything is possible.\"<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The key step for him was: 'Before investing a lot of time and money in an idea, it makes sense to test it with users - will it be useful and interesting to others? Would tennis players and coaches even have something like this?\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great reactions were often accompanied by surprise: \"Now that we see this, we are amazed that something like this doesn't exist.\" Why not? \"It's quite a challenge to ensure controlled movement, especially when the ground is not completely flat... It was harder than I thought at first.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He named the tennis cannon Sportbot<\/strong>. \"The name combines my two passions - sport and robotics.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sportbot is capable of moving around the tennis court and launching balls of different speeds, heights and rotations. The mobile app allows you to pre-program it in any way you want, easily and in advance. The most advanced feature is Play a match, where Sportbot decides where to move and what ball to launch. You play it as if you had a real teammate in front of you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Superb! Toni was also recognised as a remarkable story by the creators of Podjetno naprej >><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n