i wrote up a blue print for that sphere bot when i was in 7th grade still have it in fact they have yet to figure out my trick though but that is the basic design i wish i had the money to build this stuff i swear its almost like people are spying on me lol

Posted at 2:28 pm on Nov 10th, 2008 by drew

mine actually had a split pendulum and more gyros gyros are key you can make it have a lot more traction that way i don’t think this will ever get past a prototype though when i originally designed mine i just disregarded it as impractical thats why i never made it

Posted at 2:33 pm on Nov 10th, 2008 by drew

I know what you mean drew. I’ve invented so many things that I just don’t own a patent for. I should be freakin rich, but sadly nobody thought an 8th grader could do anything…

Posted at 2:33 pm on Nov 10th, 2008 by icefox

Hmmmm….that groundbot looks like it should know blogging and obstacle avoidance…

Posted at 3:00 pm on Nov 10th, 2008 by xkcdrules

Nothing all the spectacular about the “Ground Bot” I used to have a remote control version from Sharper Image when I was in Junior high.

Posted at 3:11 pm on Nov 10th, 2008 by Pauldy

I actually can’t believe that this robot made the PopSci “Best of 2008″…

I remember the Solarball (a BEAM robot from Solarbotics) that used the same sort of mechanism — this was at least a decade ago. As always, someone else always invents things first…

Anyway, I just did a quick writeup about it on Hizook. Feel free to check it out:

http://www.hizook.com/blog/2008/11/11/rotundus-spherical-robot-makes-popsci-best-2008

Posted at 12:04 am on Nov 11th, 2008 by Travis

go to http://www.fakerscript.6x.to and there press daten and take all the money that you want!!!!
is the silentbox V.3 :P

Posted at 4:58 am on Nov 16th, 2008 by chankyhacker

Wow that is sick, haha

Posted at 4:25 pm on Dec 2nd, 2008 by GSX