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Uploaded by on Oct 20, 2009

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327267.800

A wall-hopping robot remains upright whichever way it lands.

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  • new technology: it should always land upright due to it being WEIGHTED AT THE BOTTOM... do i sense a nobel prize?

  • Thats one of those simple things you feel embarrassed no body has thought of it before.

    Put a cage around the helicopter......oh yeah!

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  • im going to do this to all of my air hogs now

  • Another toy that will end up being used to either kill us or track people.

  • @gamehero77 slow down slow down. they will get there. just wait till they hear about gravito electrics by rotating super fluids. then ion drive, gyroscopics, laser sails and solar winds will make sense

    Like describing that it's not down and up it's inward and outward from center. That doesn't make sense on a flat planet.

  • @iztoight inward

  • @clanOT i loled

  • nice toy

  • since it's ball shaped, it shouldn't need a whole lot of weight. the slightest lowering of center of gravity should cause it to roll over onto it's "feet".

    also what would use it for?

  • It won't use fans on the moon. That's what the ion jet engines are for. And when it doesn't need to jump, it could have a gyroscope based means of locomotion. In other words, it would roll, too.

  • how the fuck will the fans work on the moon.? huh ?

  • Larger versions, "Helicoptor 2.0"

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