A Robot That Balances on a Ball

[TheZeeBeex]

Now sit on it!!! gonna be so cool

[TimJSwan89]

The first time you run this robot, it's not "Hello World," it's "Yo, aliens, I'm standing on the world - let me in the club already!"

[gnoooo]

how does is work outdoors? with wind and a non flat ground.

would be interesting to know

greetings

[SEThatered]

@gnoooo

Wind is not an issue, as in one mode it would compensate for it, in other mode you would manually compensate for wind.

Non flat ground is not a problem too, up to a certain degree

(when it's too steep it will just lose it's ball in this robot configuration shown in the video)

however there are robots with attached ball.

The worst thing for this kind of robot is the loss of grip: either ball to surface, or rollers to ball; so wet weather and icy road would be the worst for such robot.

[tigerboy1227]

remote control? its connected to the robot itself....

[MikePureHate]

epic... how much

[sonicwingmode2]

but can it blend?

[GuyGarret]

Seems like this could be a great tool in areas of construction and other fields of work that require heavy lifting.

Not to mention creating a sci-fi style robot that runs around on a ball would be awesome to see as well.

[KaMakaZeDaN17]

Kicks ball...

[KYPE207]

i used to balance on a ball,then i took an arrow in the knee

[Anima87]

@KYPE207 i used to read funny comments on youtube, but then i read yours and took an arrow to the knee.

[TheMintyXD]

HEY ANGEL

[Octopossible]

omg, this is awesome. im gonna get my arduino to do this!!

[robbiethehood]

two wheels, no robot needed, 10$ spent.



[TheHareidGamer]

Mom?..



[ikijas]

Me wants one~~~~!!! This is awesome could be used for soooo many things... get me a beer!

[kfaskdfasdfadf]

Where can i buy one?

[abartolomeos]

great, no more hanging heavy objects by hand :)

[peterbone]

Have you considered making the robot balance on a ball that is balanced on a ball? That would be very impressive. I don't think the hardware would need any changes.

[Videogametourist]

Now sit on it

[XecodaSempai]

i would promote  you!!! but im only 16 and dont have that kind of cash

[afzal067]

but why need a whole robot to achieve this? i mean, whats this motor for?

[Ryat51]

@afzal067 Can you even balance on a ball like that?

[dubstep1001]

I guess you could say, balancing that water ontop of the robot "took a lot of balls"

[NigelGriff]

@dubstep1001 Nope, just one.

[MrLolwut88]

@dubstep1001 van halen: YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH­HHHHHHHHHHH!

[tighematthew]

BAR CAR



[CognitiveNetwork]

But does it blend?

[elpresidio]

This will be revolutionary. Forget reinventing the wheel. Hello reinventing the sphere. Infinite planar axis.

[55AppleStreet]

I SEE A FUTURE FOR THAT!

[myxxmichuki]

Hey i have a quick question,did u use accelerometers to detect the fall of the robot,or what were u using to test the imbalance of the robot.Very amazing work

[Serckep]

LOL! I created a robot just like that in Garry's Mod a couple of years ago!

[2010FX35]

That is really awesome - I hope that the project progresses beyond the scientists wildest dreams.

[TunioMir]

This has significant industrial applications, let me know if your willing to manufacture these.

[kruelkiller]

i wonder what is the ball made up of? so perfectly smooth and doesn't bend due to the stress!

[trungcoder]

@kruelkiller may be the bowling ball

[trungcoder]

@kruelkiller may be the bowling ball

[swish007]

i want to put a bicycle seat on it and ride it around

[xsmicro]

Woah. Even this?!

[Mariolover24]

DUDE! Great idea just popped in. One "balled" segways. Awesomeness. This Lab should really start selling these btw.

[TheGeneralOfWar]

I could use them for my coffee table,easy re arrange the furniture. I also would make a chair out of one.

[Swamp666heaD]

AWESOME

[VectorVandal07]

The worlds most expensive caster wheel

[xbuster17]

outstanding model! could easily do future computer chairs and wheelchairs... it might even make for a fine boat i think.. a life saver on the shore? a super cool modern skateboard type transportation...endless possibilities OMG the future is awesome ! i mean, the present =)

[Gell1welt69]

Awesome

[Jimmy4240]

this will be like the new segway. people just sit on top and zoom around

[waldinussmann]

simply great

[jukio02]

i robot car wheels

[gotM3T4L]

this is fucking hot.



[TheSuperNova335]

yeah - smooth following finger and he is controling it on remote control

[HollowJet]

@TheSuperNova335 He's not touching anything on the remote control...

[chavvysavvy1]

nice vid xD

[test123ok]

make the robot lighter , fill that ball with helium and increase the degrees of freedom. you could make something like those drones used by Jedi in practice.

[Vonoska]

@test123ok how about YOU do that. do you know how much research and time they spent designing these. Yeah, they'll just "make it lighter" so you can have your starwars fantasy..

[ppiibb]

that is just... amazing

[Nomoreidsleft]

It would be more impressive if you can make it balance at an angle. Next video maybe.

[UTcommando]

lol. when he showed the 3 robots handling the wood frame my first reaction was HOLY SHIT HE HAS THREE OF THEM!!

[MrHordeGuy]

wow thats cool some people dont notice that we use complex robots in every day life this i bet will be another

[bR4GE]

second generation Segway!

[vladimirFNX]

I believe the weight helps.... but it is AMAZING!!!

[eddiea6987]

made strong enough and you can use that to carry and move really heavy stuff

[Jordanrandall194]

I want one

[onlyguitar1001]

thank you japanese people for being so clever (y)

[Unclevertitle]

Hell yes that's awesome!

[danybatista]

fantástica demostración hecha por robots :o

[maskednil]

Reminds me of R2-D2 in ROTJ.

[SiliconeSlave]

So THAT'S how the cars in I, Robot worked!

Great robots, btw. ;)

[geniemist]

This is John Connor...If you are reading this, you ARE the resistance!

[klevrah]

stabilizers for earthquakes perhaps???

[natta444]

this would only work in a world without stairs but still it's pretty cool

[act98006]

Perhaps Tohoku University would be better served by developing robots that could enter nuclear power plants and help deal with fuel core melt-downs.

[regregex]

George W. Bush fell off this robot 51 times.

[dbzssjgohan]

Holy fuck that's cool! Imagine larger scale versions, transport humans, convert current car wheel systems to this, like in iRobot, haha man I can't wait for 2040

[ninja134]

and the next rich american fad is!!

[iitjava]

jaaapppaaaaaaannn!!!!

their robots freak me out!!!>-o

[Daghead]

PLEASE make an I, Robot style vehicle out of these!

[twistmental79]

Oh great. Now what are circus bears gonna do for a living.

[Scoundrelus]

@twistmental79 Probably eat fish, berries and hibernate.

[despisel]

@twistmental79 they will live in a forest, where they should always be.

[twistmental79]

@despisel Living in the forest balancing on odd bits of wood. Sounds fun.

[Cintromix]

@twistmental79 They can be set freeeeee Yaaaaaa

[gammaworld]

@twistmental79 They will have to go back to hunting fish out of the stream, mate with other bears and lay in the sun. What a hardship they will have!

[jnwpse]

51 people tried this and forgot to turn the robot "on".

[JIOnYXXX]

k, now do that with two and then one leg

leg? wtf?!

[shintsu01]

cool stuff now to get it working in a less optimal floor

[asadlarik3]

single wheel vehicles.

[chaff5]

Proof that the Dyson "ball" is just a giant wheel.

[abraxass1990]

awesome, when you think all mechanisms are invented there are new things that comes out

[XepherLink]

what if u kicked it

[zppz]

actually... i have a table that can do that last part without any electronics

[Tibian50]

and there, a futuristic car

[neongreen47]

that thing is so damn beatiful

[pinguinomaligno]

cool



[comedytracker]

When a movement in the right direction is first made, it is often performed in a haphazard fashion.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present a movement in the right direction.

[OrionWesson]

what a title XD

[hellochachinette]

amazing.  too bad they used that horrendous type for the video.

[pigpigpigwwf]

I have a question: Is this project more mechanics based or CS based?

[ps2nolimits]

so cool

[Buddhabright]

I'm sure I've seen these in the intro level to Mega Man X.

[ajaypeacock]

i'm dancin i'm dancin!

[crazy123atom]

@ajaypeacock That sounds like a Borderlands refrence to me! :D

[derek0456]

A bunch of college students beat them to it by 4 years... and you can kick it without it falling over!

youtube.com/watch?v=YB0_IQOFjq­M

[HarvestReaper]

cant wait for this to be implemented into cars

[ivanraz]

developed ...??? :)) 

[I3L4NK]

wow, this is actually quite impressive. I wonder if it could be adapted into a type of omnidirectional segway...

[mumTheweiser]

very impressive. engineers got a robot to feel gravity and compensate. I did want to see the guy hit one of the corners and see how(if?) the robots could correct for it

[APS8369]

NEEERRRRRRRRRDDDDDDSSSSSS

[DomIstKrieg]

wow.

[molinobeer]

This is how the audi from I robot works.

[FrozenMasters]

@danwaisel LOLWUT

[DavidNamdvili]

wow

[5amuu]

Have you thought of the selling the idea to some earthquake insurance company?

[StillAware]

The future for automobiles right before flying vehicles are used for daily transportation.

[DeusExInfernus]

@StillAware Exactly. It finally solves the dilemma of same-direction wheels to around-the-cabin wheels. Pure unadulterated awesome.

[bigbluechevy12345]

Put a chair on top of it, and ride it down a hill. WIN

[imaginenoreligion]

Awesome and potentially very useful

[buggers1230]

thats legit!!!!!! this is crazy!!

[LeeHoichuen]

Real Cool!

Excellent work!! :D

[ultimatelighting]

wow

[Sezgin2k]

Now sid on that thing with the remote controller and drive around .. haha

[EcazS]

@Sezgin2k HAHA LOL!

[RedUnbannable]

how did japan not win ww2...they would deff win ww3

[SinbladeZen]

@RedUnbannable I'm sure they'll rule the battlefield with their ball-balancing robots.

[papaupapaeueo]

a4983 DMOS... ¿?

[dizawish]

Outstanding !!  (shao kan)

[kiyotewolf]

mom, I'm going to go to school.

teacher is going to teach us how to play with our balls.. for science..

[Keitaro2011]

You know, that could potentially revolutionize transportation!

[MasacruRo]

I want that to bring me the remote control!

[maxdecphoenix]

yawn... call me when this design can go up stairs and/or not eat shit trying to go up or down a ramp. I like engineering, but these ball designs always fail. "future is here" ...lol

[iLEE]

kill it now!

[VMKristien]

Looks like those come handy in decorating and moving (heavy) objects :o

[diegodaly]

very good!

[caqtv]

It's not AI, but it is cool.

[dragonzord250]

Imagine having one on a coffee table

[gabbercharles]

un-fucking-believABLE!

[Tuksavul]

I am not seein any skynet jokes roun here comon guys, sont lose ur spirit!!

[daprelle]

Put A chair on one of those and you got yourself a sitting segway

[olppa1]

Who ever thinks this is "amazing". All it needs to do is keep balance, and that is incredibly simple for a computer program as long as it is given the current parameters.

[supernfly]

@olppa1

What's amazing is the concept. Yeah, the parameters may be easy to set up, but if you say simple, why don't you build one then?

[A1Skeptic]

Brilliant. Of course if a poodle did it, it would be a stupid dog trick. Ball surfing robots-- very cool. George Jetson house 'bots out by Christmas 2012. I further predict an outbreak of "Canine Laryngitis", with symptoms of moderate mental unease. As well as record high for the "Insane Cat Flight Response Index".

[TheKloop]

D00d WTF!?! ok not to be negative or anything but PLEASE stop feeding SKYNET! YOU ARE ENABLING THE MACHINE!

[Bubbiea]

@TheKloop wut?

[hypergeek14]

I would stand on it and have a multi-directional segway.

[plutarkosky]

amazing.

[xdiggity05]

really really cool.

[FredPhelpsLovesMen]

The very first thing I thought was, "Human transportation." This sort of technology would be revolutionary in almost every aspect of transportation. The future is here.

[ch4r1z4u0153]

This is... Incredible. My only thought is- can't the machinery be simpler? Looking at the mechanism like this, it seems incredibly complicated and surely it can be made with less? Unless it's a computer itself, calculating everything?

[aSpeedbump]

That's great, but can it pick up a 7-10 split?

[Saffisaur]

Waiters of the future!

[BUDA20]

@Saffisaur Everything of the future.

[bryctucker]

this is amazing, now only if it could be smaller, these would be everywhere, there would be so many uses for it...

[fdol125]

that would be useful to support large buildings in places where earthquakes are frequent

[Rainbowpuppys]

@fdol125 If you put the building on top of a huge one of these, it could be mobile! :D

[ubamtz]

thats not a remote control... whats remote about it?

[ninjalevi]

that would make one awesome coffee table...

[TerpFilm]

Make a wheelchair out of it, I'd buy it ...

[rexrocker2]

@TerpFilm My thoughts exactly and i wanna make one for you to buy. Maybe you can help

[chemicaltwin]

Can I get some of those wheels for my car? I bet I could do some major U-turns and parallel parking with those!

[ut2k4wikichici]

Finally someone makes a round wheel

[DreamEater000]

49 people haven't got a GED yet...

[brokeneck]

why. WHY ARE WE STILL DOING THIS!!! these will be balancing our severed heads.

[Vi4shino]

see the

rezero @ swisstech2010

youtube.com/watch?v=I7DK_fjB1C­w

[ZavorXS]

most important:

balls aren't touching

[240SSONLY]

@ZavorXS hahahahhaha now thats funny man...

[el3ktricmind]

Wow really amazing! This may well be the next generation of segways!

[liuping999]

Notice, this is the same technology that Detective Spooner's car uses to move, this is definitely full of potential.

[mousergz]

does this leads to halting human evolution and we leave it out to the robots? we still have another 100M years to evolve i guess, and we don't need all these robots for our stubbornness

[craaankJoe]

For people who are to stupid or dont want to hold things or to carry something.

Big Thumb DOWN

[NorcanDiaboli]

@craaankJoe Thumb down for your inability to see past your own short nose.

[shoelacedonkey]

@craaankJoe lol, are you really that shortsighted to think that holding or carrying things would be the only use for technology like this?

[bigboyarnie69]

skynet is born!

[TheAdLab]

Fantastic work. But why is a University researcher wearing a tie?! ;-)