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Meet Rezero, the dancing ballbot

Engineering student Péter Fankhauser demonstrates Rezero, a robot that balances on a ball. Designed and built by students, Rezero is the first ballbot made to move quickly and gracefully -- and even dance. (Could the Star Wars sphere droid be real? Watch this and judge.)

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Engineering student Péter Fankhauser demonstrates Rezero, a robot that balances on a ball. Designed and built by students, Rezero is the first ballbot made to move quickly and gracefully -- and even dance. (Could the Star Wars sphere droid be real? Watch this and judge.)

This talk was presented at an official TED conference. TED's editors chose to feature it for you.

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Péter Fankhauser

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Péter Fankhauser is the leader of a team of students working on Rezero, a robot that balances on a single sphere.