plen: the rollerskating robot

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posted: October 8th, 2006 stumble it!8 comments author: technabob

PLEN, the Desktop Hobby Robot is a little (9-inch tall) robot from Japan which is capable of balancing itself on a mini-skateboard or to skate on its own included rollerskates.

Plen Rollerskating Robot

Here’s a video of the robot in action:

PLEN’s 18 joints can be controlled remotely using a Bluetooth phone and can run for about 25 minutes on a single charge. Created by Systec Akazawa, PLEN is available from Plen Japan for 262,500 Yen (appx. $2220 USD)

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  • 1. RobotWorldOnline.com &raq&hellip  |  October 8th, 2006 at 5:35 pm

    [...] Original post by technabob and software by Elliott Back [...]

  • 2. plen: the rollerskating r&hellip  |  January 6th, 2007 at 12:20 pm

    [...] Read it in full on technabob Filed under: Interesting, Funny, Odd   |   [...]

  • 3. interesting things - kura&hellip  |  January 6th, 2007 at 12:28 pm

    [...] Link [in Japanese, with movie goodness. Warning: website has an annoyingly upbeat background music] - via technabob [...]

  • 4. danel  |  August 4th, 2007 at 12:53 pm

    make robots like that

  • 5. JosesKaraoke  |  August 22nd, 2007 at 5:11 pm

    Just a short note to say I like your blog.

    Good job and keep up the great work!

    Kenneth

  • 6. JoeyBurns  |  August 31st, 2007 at 6:32 pm

    Wow, there is some really nice info here.
    I’ll definitely come back soon to see everything.
    Way to go! ;-)
    Joey

  • 7. ROBERT  |  October 13th, 2007 at 2:42 pm

    me gustaria que me enbien mas sobre robot

  • 8. sitar  |  October 15th, 2007 at 11:58 am

    i like robots. and i am confident of bringing a new evolution.

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