The Futuristic Ballbot That Moves Like a Living Creature

BallBot demonstrates the latest research in robot balancing abilities. A robot that moves by balancing on top of a ball can provide new motion solutions, opening up applications across industries.

A ball balancing robot also known as a ballbot is a dynamically-stable mobile robot designed to balance on a single spherical wheel (i.e., a ball). Through its single contact point with the ground, a ballbot is omnidirectional and thus exceptionally agile

Unlock the potential of BallBot, a robot that maintains balance on a single ball. Learn about the research in robotic stability.

This paper presents the design, implementation, and control of a ball-balancing robot developed for interactive applications in service and entertainment environments.

現今, 大多數的撿球機器人都使用吸球式撿球法來撿球, 這需要有精準定位功能以及足夠收納小球的容器才能做到,在考量到我們小車的空間架設與Jetson Nano 性能後, 我們決定提出一套擠壓式撿球法, 讓小車不需很精準的定位與大容器,就能成功蒐集地面上的乒乓球。 此報告利用Jetson Nano 載入ROS2 Foxy 版本, 在ROS2 系統裡整合麥克納姆輪四輪底座、 雙鏡頭相機模組、 雷達、伺服馬達之資訊, 最後提出一套擠壓式撿球系統, 實作完成後小車成功在桌球館場地執行避障與撿起地面上的橘色乒乓球功能

Have you ever seen a robot that can play catch? Well now you have. This is BaBot – a fully open-source robot built by architecture student Johan Link. And it’s absolutely ingenious – there’s no camera here to keep track of the ball

BaBot is a compact, open-source robot that balances a ball in real-time using an array of infrared (IR) sensors and an ATmega32U4 microcontroller. BaBot began as a high school project in 2018, initially using a computer and overhead camera for ball tracki