Stable levitation The NYU team performed experiments on robotic hula hoopers using gyrating bodies with various shapes. Overlaid video frames reveal that an hourglass-shaped body successfully hula ...

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An "hourglass" body shape might be the answer to sustained hula-hooping, a workout involving the twirling of a hoop around the body to keep it spinning, a study has suggested. Researchers from the New ...

Sure, you can make a ping-pong ball float just by blowing at it through a drinking-straw, but wouldn't a ball-levitating robot be so much more fun? Luckily for us, University of Illinois grad students ...