Is a Segway still a Segway if it has three wheels? Meet the Segway SE-3 Patroller, a Segway with three wheels designed for mall cops everywhere. The new model forgoes the traditional two-wheel, auto-balancing setup for a more stable and robust three-wheel arrangement. It’s for security forces such as mall cops and police officers who need the added stability, extra storage and, well,… Read More
Move over Segway, there’s a new stand-up personal transporter in town. Or there will be come August when the first machines are scheduled to ship to Kickstarter backers. More than 200 users of the crowdfunding website have pledged funds to Me-Mover, a Danish project to rethink the bike as a stand-up exerciser on wheels. Read More
Segway has been around for a long time and has been making some of the geekiest and coolest personal transportation devices around. The electric transports that Segway makes are controlled … Continue reading
This sci-fi electric unicycle is the RYNO, a future-badass alternative to the Segway that looks like it got beamed down from the year 2114. But it’s here, and it’s real, and I got to ride it.
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It takes a special kind of magic to make an electric motor unicycle not terrifying to ride, and Ryno Motors has somehow pulled it off.
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If the only thing stopping you from riding around town on a Segway is, well, looking like someone riding around town on a Segway, this enhanced version might make you a little less hesitant about being seen in public on one. And it’s all thanks to a handful of Vespa scooters that had to sacrifice their lives for this creation.
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Originally teased five years ago, Toyota’s Segway-killing Winglet is finally taking to the streets of Japan for public testing. While the original device was designed to be steered by users’ knees, the revamped edition now contains a familiar steering pillar-and-wheels combination. The trials are due to run through March 2016 with the aim of proving that the Winglet is safe, functional and will save shoe leather on your commute to work. Those curious to see what the Japanese version of infamous Segway fan George Oscar Bluth Jr. (or, you know, Justin Bieber) looks like, head past the break for the video.
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Helmet? Check. Segway? Got it. Total dweeb status? Done and done. Under normal circumstances, it’s hard to look at someone riding the personal transportation system without cracking up. But try watching a series of people falling off of Segways, and it’s utterly impossible to keep a straight face. More »
How was your week? We got to spend a couple of days trekking around the Carnegie Mellon campus in Pittsburgh, PA to check out some of the latest projects from the school’s world renowned Robotics Institute — a trip that culminated with the bi-annual induction ceremony from the CMU-sponsored Robot Hall of Fame. Given all the craziness of the past seven days, you might have missed some of the awesomeness, but fear not, we’ve got it all for you here in one handy place — plus a couple of videos from the trip that we haven’t shown you yet. Join us after the break to catch up.
Butlers, lunar rovers, snakes and airboats: the best of Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 27 Oct 2012 12:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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At school like Carnegie Mellon, it sort of figures that you’d find robots just about everywhere, performing the sorts of tasks we’ve traditionally left to us more fleshy types. In the two days we’ve spent on campus, we’ve seen ‘bots do just about everything — some far more autonomously than others. Take Roboceptionist — the robotic secretary was one of the first intelligent beings we encountered upon arriving on the premises, artificial or otherwise, greeting us from a wooden kiosk near the entrance to Newell-Simon Hall.
The receptionist’s creators named him Marion “Tank” Lefleur — but don’t call him “Marion.” It’s really a sort of a “Boy Named Sue” scenario, and calling him by his birth name is a surefire way of getting on his bad side. When he’s not getting irritated, Tank’s tasked with helping you find things on campus — people, halls, food — by way of a small keyboard. He’s got a surprisingly complex backstory that informs his answers. Ask him how his mom and dad are doing and you’re bound to get some fairly bizarre responses — same with more straight forward questions about finding a place to eat on campus, for that matter.
Gallery: Carnegie Mellon robotic servants
Gallery: Roboceptionist
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Robotic butlers, bartenders and receptionists at Carnegie Mellon (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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