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!
It was only last year that I learned it was Canada and not Canadia ;)
And Mauri should check out that Wikipedia link. Finland and Iceland are not Scandinavian but Nordic countries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavia
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