A robot that balances on top of a metal sphere about the size of a soccer ball could be a model for more nimble android assistants. The tall, thin robot, called Ballbot, sits on top of a ball, which ...

A human-size robot balancing on a ball that acts as a spherical wheel can push wheelchairs as smoothly as a human assistant – and may carry out this caregiving task better than many humanoid robot ...

Light in comparison moves at a whopping 299,792,458 meters per second (or about 671 million miles per hour). You’re going to have to have a pretty fast finger on a stopwatch to measure the time it ...

In a surprising development in the field of robotics, researchers have discovered that small modifications to a robot’s body mass and ball size can significantly enhance its balancing abilities.

If you’re an electronics company that builds cutting-edge sensors the average consumer never actually sees in a device, how do you go about promoting your work? Japan’s Murata does so by building ...

Ralph Hollis, a research professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, has been building “ballbots” — tall, thin robots that glide around on a sphere a bit smaller than a bowling ball ...

The night before Anna Garverick was to present her independent project for Northwestern Engineering's Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) program, she learned a valuable lesson: Don’t turn your back ...