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Whatever Happened To Segway
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jonovid:
was a time when any two-wheeled self-balancing personal transporter was desirable.
even Boston Dynamics had a two-wheeled self-balancing unit dubbed Handle.
did cheap hoverboards give them an unfavorable reputation? or was the two-wheeled design too inefficient?
compared to robotic walking legs. will electric motorcycles ever become self-balancing parallel wheeled like a Segway.
or is speed a limiting factor. poor braking distance.
xrunner:
Whatever happened to them?

Nothing:

https://www.segway.com/
wraper:
It's bulky, slow, expensive and overall not very good. For general public there are electric scooters now which are easier and safer to use, take less space and are much cheaper. For someone who wants something more extreme and self balancing, there are EUC, Onewheel, hoverboards.
wraper:

--- Quote from: xrunner on June 14, 2023, 12:10:10 pm ---Whatever happened to them?

Nothing:

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Company itself remains only in name, it's actually a Chinese Ninebot now. But it's not the question that was asked.
Psi:
2 wheel balance robots have their place.
But the goal is a humanoid robot that can replace workers doing all the boring repetitive tasks that current robots just can't do because they require too much hand dexterity and hand eye co-ordination .
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