Better Than a Ball Machine: I Checked Out 2 Tennis Robots and Now Want One

Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and San Francisco and now lives in New Hampshire. When he's not writing about laptops, Matt likes to play and watch sports. He loves to play tennis and hates the number of streaming services he has to subscribe to in order to watch the various sports he wants to watch.

For most tennis fans, the year doesn't begin until next week, which is the start of the Australian Open. For me, however, the tennis calendar started last week in Las Vegas. After running around for most of the week at CES 2026 in search ...