If you’ve ever tried balancing something as short and skinny as a pencil on your fingertip, you know it isn’t easy. Why is that? How is it possible to create a free-standing rock sculpture like this ...

During boring classes, you may strike a pinch at the tip of your hands or fingers and take a balance to balance. The most difficult thing is a pointed pencil with a small contact area. How many ...

A team at the University of Zurich has developed a machine that can balance a pencil on its point using two cameras that track tipping movement in real time. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) ...

Swiss researchers have developed a robot that can balance a pencil. New Scientist informs us that pole-balancing is, apparently, a “well-known exercise in robotics research.” But roboticists weren’t ...

Who wouldn’t want to install this little bot as your newest pencil holder? Place a pencil tip-down and it will keep it from falling using two motors. There is a Dynamic Vision Sensor for each axis ...

Introduction What makes an object stay balanced? Look around you. Most of the objects in the room are probably balanced—and not on the verge of tipping over. If someone hands you an object and asks ...

If acquiring the ability to keep a pencil balanced on its tip is one of your foremost concerns, then you my friend have lived a charmed life. And you will be heartened to learn that a team at The ...