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Re:A Robot That Balances on a Ball by blhack on Friday April 30, 2010 @12:29PM (#1308613)
Absolutely not. Can you imagine this thing trying to make it over a pile of sticks? Or a curb? Or really any obstruction of any kind?

I don't think this is meant to be innovating in the "this is going to change the world" sense, but more "look at this cool robot I made!".

Re:A Robot That Balances on a Ball by abecedarius on Saturday May 01, 2010 @05:19AM (#1310340)
Make a fancier version that can hop. (When this robot was sketched out in the "Inventions of Daedalus" column in Nature a few decades ago, he went into the how-to-hop issue too, though I don't remember any details.)