http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/ Engadget Comments for BallP bowling ball 'bot puts your sense of balance to shame (video) http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/Apr 30th 2010 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/
i just wanna see him sit on it. ]]>Apr 30th 2010 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/Apr 30th 2010 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/"That robot sure has A cojone"
There, fixed that for you.]]>Apr 30th 2010 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/Apr 30th 2010 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/Your name is aptly self-appointed, sir]]>Apr 30th 2010 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/Apr 30th 2010 10:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/
The same premise can be used down the road for ball-driven cars a la the Audi RSQ.]]>Apr 30th 2010 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/Apr 30th 2010 10:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/Apr 30th 2010 12:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/Apr 30th 2010 12:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/Apr 30th 2010 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/Apr 30th 2010 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/Apr 30th 2010 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/Apr 30th 2010 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/Apr 30th 2010 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/
Might make the iPad less of a hassle to carry around...]]>Apr 30th 2010 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/]]>Apr 30th 2010 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/Apr 30th 2010 10:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/Apr 30th 2010 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/Apr 30th 2010 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.idsc.ethz.ch/Research_DAndrea/Cube
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The U.S. military has stuff far more advanced than this.]]>Apr 30th 2010 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/Actually, the math is fairly complicated. You would need at least one semester of control systems/theory to do something like that. ]]>Apr 30th 2010 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/
Ok, If it's trivial to design and build, then lets see yours. ]]>Apr 30th 2010 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/
...or a textbook and the time to digest the required math. A class is not necessarily needed to do something like this.

The biggest issue is getting all the moving pieces in the right places with mechanical precision. But if everything could be gotten off the shelf without custom tooling, that would not be a gigantic barrier either. But you need to be able to assemble the mechanics painstakingly.

@rduran

I have neither the time nor the resources. But if I did, i.e. if someone paid me big bucks so I could devote 12 hours a day for 3 months on it, I could likely do it.]]>Apr 30th 2010 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/Apr 30th 2010 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/You're worse than internet tough guy... seriously.]]>Apr 30th 2010 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/Apr 30th 2010 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/
Fit him with a retaining bolt...]]>Apr 30th 2010 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/Apr 30th 2010 12:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/Apr 30th 2010 11:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/Apr 30th 2010 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/
Like these SPMT, just with balls instead of wheels.

http://www.bateman.co.za/globe74/jpeg/Gl%2074%20p4%20mid%20rht.jpg]]>Apr 30th 2010 12:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/Apr 30th 2010 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/Apr 30th 2010 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/
BallP at least superficially seems very similar.

I wonder what Ballbot is up to today?]]>Apr 30th 2010 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/Apr 30th 2010 12:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/Apr 30th 2010 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/I'd like to see it balance itself over my overgrown garden lawn! ]]>Apr 30th 2010 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/
Well, aside from not being able to use stairs, which is a good thing, so they can't 'get to you' while you sleep. ]]>Apr 30th 2010 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/Unless you bring it to the same level as you're sleeping?]]>Apr 30th 2010 8:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/
It would make them easy to change out too.]]>Apr 30th 2010 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/Apr 30th 2010 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/
Balls!]]>Apr 30th 2010 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ballp-bowling-ball-bot-puts-your-sense-of-balance-to-shame-vid/
This could be the next generation of Honda's UX-3: http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/07/engadget-rides-the-honda-u3-x-personal-mobility-device-video/]]>Apr 30th 2010 1:50PM