Hakim explains a little more about his Arduino powered self balancing robot and the inspiration behind creating it “Last winter, I promised my eight-year-old son to build a little balancing ...

The self balancing robot is equipped with two Lego NXT motors and the open source Hippo-ADK board connects to a Android smartphone or tablet to provide extra processing power and functionality.

The miniscule size of this self-balancing robot makes it a cool project. It actually uses the motor and wheels from a small toy car. But when you look into how the balancing act is performed it ...

[Trandi] can check ‘build a self-balancing robot’ off of his to-do list. Over a couple of weekends, he built said robot, and, in his own words, managed not to over-design it. It even kept the ...

Workbench Projects announces its Eighth Maker Weekend Edition: Workshop on Building a Self-Balancing Robot. The eighth edition of the Maker Weekend is brought to advance participants Arduino ...

Two-wheels good, more-wheels bad. That's the principle behind this self-balancing DIY robot, which uses similar principles to the Segway to scuttle about the room. The work of Italian programmer ...

Earlier today, Facebook filed a patent for “a self-balancing robot that transitions from a three-wheeled mode to a two-wheeled self-balancing mode” with the United States Patent and Trademark ...

The self-balancing robot patent was filed by Facebook employee who previously worked at a telepresence robotics company. These types of robots remain a niche product.