Magnus Linderoth and Kristian Soltesz of the Lund Institute of Technology, Scandinavia Sweden, created this robot that is an absolute expert in balancing an inverted pendulum! Maybe the 2.0 version can also spin plates. Now that would be very cool…
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – Thanks algonkin!
Andrew Maxwell
In this podcast by on podtech at Sun’s Executive Briefing Centre – the same piece of tech is at work:
I hope there’s a chronology issue here and not an unnecessary duplication of effort:
Just about 02:30 it shown:
http://www.podtech.net/home/1908/sun-microsystems-ceo-we-almost-died
Andrew
Mauri
scandinavia is a group of countries (Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Denmark)…Lund is in the south of Sweden… the prndulumbalancer is a modified printer
Andrew
Where did you people learn geography? Scandinavia is not a country! Lund is in Sweden. It’s like saying London, Europe.
And Mauri should check out that Wikipedia link. Finland and Iceland are not Scandinavian but Nordic countries.
Alex
Er, that was embarrassing – yes, it’s in Sweden not Scandinavia.
It was only last year that I learned it was Canada and not Canadia 
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