[Jouni] built a pretty nice little two-wheeled robot a while back — but he never got it working quite right. Taking inspiration and a bit of opensource code from another hacker featured here, he’s ...

An innovator has built a self-balancing one-wheeled robot. Developed using 3D-printed components, the latest innovation can stand still. YouTuber James Bruton built the robot using 3D-printed ...

I looked at two existing designs for this, the first was OmBURo which uses helical gears to convey motion to the smaller wheels from a motor aligned with the main axis of the wheel. This allows ...

A single AI model trained to control numerous robotic bodies can operate unfamiliar hardware and adapt eerily well to serious ...

The motorcycle of tomorrow isn’t just electric, good-looking, and high-performance: it’s also smart. So smart that it can self-balance and follow you around, like “your jogging companion.” That is not ...

Wheeled robots are really starting to catch on, as this design makes them suitable for a variety of applications. The Ascento Pro is a good example of versatile mobile bots and it combines both the ...

Should you ever have wondered who invented the self-balancing "hoverboard" … well, it was a man named Shane Chen. He has now incorporated that same technology into a design for a two-wheeled electric ...

But how can we use physical spinning gyroscopes to stabilise or make robots balance? I've built a Control Moment Gyro which uses a solid state IMU to measure the angle of roll of the whole device, and ...