The invention discloses a shuttlecock robot and a control method thereof, which belong to the field of robots. The invention provides a shuttlecock robot capable of moving in a three-dimensional space and a control method thereof. The shuttlecock robot comprises an operation track part, a hitting part and a visual part, wherein a longitudinal track is provided with a longitudinal sliding block, and a transverse track is provided with a transverse sliding block; longitudinal and transverse synchronous belts are connected with a motor respectively; the transverse sliding block is provided with the hitting part, and a shaft of a racket is connected with a shaft of the motor; the visual part comprises two cameras which are perpendicular to each other; and the inside of the motor is provided with a sensor. The control method of the shuttlecock robot comprises the steps of: acquiring an image for binarization processing, extracting coordinates of a shuttlecock image, and converting the coordinates of the shuttlecock image into actual coordinates; establishing a three-dimensional rectangular coordinate system, and evaluating three-dimension coordinates of a shuttlecock; performing Kallman filtering on the coordinates; performing trajectory pre-estimation; and detecting information of the racket through the sensor, sending the information of the racket into a signal control system along with pre-estimated coordinates, and using a servo system to control the motor to finish the operation along the tracks and the action of the hitting of the robot.