Bossa Nova Robotics unveils mObi personal ballbot

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Bossa Nova Robotics, a spin-off of Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, has announced a new research platform called mObi. The mObi platform is based on a design by Professor Ralph Hollis, who developed a robot that balanced and moved on a ball instead of wheels, called the Ballbot. Thanks to its unique form of locomotion, mObi moves gracefully in any direction and could be put to work as a telepresence robot in the future... Continue Reading Bossa Nova Robotics unveils mObi personal ballbot

Section: Robotics

Tags: Bossa Nova Robotics, Carnegie Mellon, Robots, Self-balancing, Telepresence

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