Like anything in life, the secret to becoming Steph Curry or Sabrina Ionescu is practice, practice, and more practice. You practice when it’s too hot, too cold, you’re tired, or you’re sick.
Finding a willing one-on-one partner through all of that is, however, another question entirely. The good news is that later this year, you may be able to buy one — for a cool $1,000.
Davy Robot’s Datic 1 nabbed a good bit of attention this week at CES 2025, as attendees lined up to shoot some hoops on the busy show floor. The bot sits under a hoop, rebounding the ball after you take a shot.
The system is (relatively) portable at around 33 pounds. You wheel it under a hoop, and the arms extend upward, taking netting along with it. The hoop at CES was considerably lower than regulation, but the final version will be able to extend the standard 10 feet into the air. The robot uses machine vision and AI to track the shooter, swiveling its head to return the back.
Davy says its shooting for June for a Kickstarter launch.
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