MiP (short for mobile inverted pendulum) was named a Product of the Future for 2014 for Popular Mechanics. It besides earned an honour for Envisioneering, Innovation together with Design together with was a finalist at CES' Last Gadget Standing Competition.
MiP garnered a fair flake of press, including stories inwards Engadget and Popular Science.Popular Science gushed:
The WowWee MiP is a charming, two-wheeled Segway 'bot that has to a greater extent than or less impressive balance.
The robot is the encephalon tyke of toy designers at WowWee together with a grouping of graduate students inwards the Coordinated Robotics Lab hither at the Jacobs School, which is led past times mechanical together with engineering professor Tom Bewley.
"It was a flake overwhelming at commencement exactly an exciting experience, at to the lowest degree for me personally, to survive a business office of the unloosen together with to assist promote MiP at the WowWee booth," said Saam Ostovari, who was the Pb graduate pupil on the MiP design. "It was a non-stop flux of press, suppliers together with consumers wanting to acquire most MiP. I nonetheless haven't recovered my phonation from all the talking I did."
See below for a video of MiP inwards action.
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