Professor Ralph Hollis invented a robot with a special motor that has a very simple drive system about a decade ago called the ballbot. Fast-forward ten years and Hollis' invention called the ...

Streamlining a robot's design can cut back on maintenance and repairs by eliminating any extra parts that could break. Even better, transitioning from mechanical to electronic parts simplifies design ...

A team of UC Santa Cruz computer science and engineering (CSE) Ph.D. students won third place in the first-ever Amazon Alexa Prize SimBot Challenge, a university competition focused on advancing ...

Ralph Hollis, a research professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, has been building “ballbots” — tall, thin robots that glide around on a sphere a bit smaller than a bowling ball ...

Robots don't have to be overly complex to perform more than basic tasks. Carnegie Mellon University researchers have created SIMbot, a human-sized cylindrical robot that gets around with only one ...

In a field where highly complex machinery often pulls the strings of highly complex maneuvers, a system that relies on a single ball to get around is certainly at the simpler end of the spectrum. Ten ...

More than a decade ago, Ralph Hollis invented the ballbot, an elegantly simple robot whose tall, thin body glides atop a sphere slightly smaller than a bowling ball. The latest version, called SIMbot, ...

Carnegie Mellon University's SIMbot robot uses a motor with just one moving part -- a large ball -- to balance and move in an office environment. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible ...

Through the transformative power of artificial intelligence (AI), Amazon Alexa products are advancing every day. To provide students hands-on opportunities to develop smarter, more efficient, and more ...