Bouncing Bejebus on a pogo stick–a Japanese unicycle-riding robot!
According to the Nikkei (subscription required), Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd is pushing its new unicycle-riding robot at the CEATEC Japan 2008 exhibition in Makuhari Messe in Chiba just east of Tokyo.
This robot is actually meant to represent a kindergarten girl. As well as riding forward and backward, the girlie-bot can balance even when stationary.
Besides the trippy photos of Murata’s robots bicycling on Mars with a fawn, check out their creepy TV commercials of other versions of their cycling robots here.
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