Péter Fankhauser: Meet Rezero, the dancing ballbot

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http://www.ted.com Onstage at TEDGlobal, Péter Fankhauser demonstrates Rezero, a robot that balances on a ball. Designed and built by a group of engineering students, Rezero is the first ballbot made to move quickly and gracefully -- and even dance.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate.

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  • Ahh, I see my old computer's mouse roller ball has done well.

  • finally a robot with some balls !

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  • @fankipete Thank you very much :)

  • lol the dance was very lame

  • If anyone knows, what's that song its dancing to? Appreciate it. :)

  • asimo just got served.

  • Support me

  • One word. Stairs...

  • i saw this thing at the ETH Zürich, they can controll it with an xbox controller

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