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Bot With A Ball

August 9, 2006 Paul Raven

No, not another soccer-and-robots story. Traditional locomotive systems in robots, like wheels or legs, often add unconvenient size and bulk and make them unsuitable for areas in which humans also roam. The Ballbot, recently developed at Carnegie Mellon University, stands human-height and human-wide on a single ball, enabling it to navigate the same spaces that people use and look pretty striking at the same time.

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