This is such a nice mechanism that you just have to watch as it uses rotating wheels under computer control to convert angular to linear momentum - more simply it can jump up on command and balance.

All Google wants for Christmas is a bunch of scary ass robots. Clearly, the big ticket items under the tree are Big Dog and the rest of the Boston Dynamics nightmare menagerie. But if Larry and Sergey ...

Meet Cubli! Cubli is a 15 x 15 x 15cm robotic cube that can roll around and balance on its corners using a series of gyroscopes. The project has been going strong since February 2011 at the Institute ...

This latest version of the Cubli can jumping up, balanc, and even “walk”. This new version is self contained with respect to power and uses three slightly modified bicycle brakes instead of the metal ...