Video: Mini Humanoid "Little Seiko" Navigating an S-shaped Balance Beam

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

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Yesterday, we showed you “Little Seiko”, a pretty awesome unicycling mini humanoid developed by Japan-based Murata. As reported, the new version (the first model appeared 5 years ago) boasts the ability to traverse an S-shaped balance beam without falling over. But yesterday, we could show you just a picture and no video – now we can.

Murata itself has released the clip embedded below on its YouTube channel. In it, you can see Little Seiko navigating down a short S-curve. She takes her time, but she does it.

Here’s the clip:

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