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ICYMI: Segway's plan B and flexible concrete

Your personal motorized scooter also wants to be a home-based robot.

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Updated Sat, Aug 20, 2016, 9:30 AM·1 min read

Today on In Case You Missed It: Segway came to Intel's Developer's Forum to show a prototype for a self-balancing scooter that is also a robot. If the public SDK works out well, Segway hopes to release a consumer version of whatever it becomes in 2017.

Nanyang Technological University researchers created flexible concrete by embedding synthetic fibers inside the material, which makes it stronger as well as flexible.

If you're interested, the CNNAir video is here. And in TL;DR, we run through the big headlines from the week, though we are most interested in seeing how the Ford vs. Uber self-driving race turns out. As always, please share any interesting tech or science videos you find by using the #ICYMI hashtag on Twitter for @mskerryd.

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