Just when it looked as though there might never be a solution to the problem of walking, Honda today unveiled the U3-X personal mobility device, a sci-fi-looking, unicycle-ish mobile stool that moves ...

In a software-driven world, it's easy to forget about the nuts and bolts. Whether it's cars, robots, personal gadgetry or industrial machines, Candace Lombardi examines the moving parts that keep our ...

Inventing a personal mobility vehicle to enable those who can't – or won't – walk to get around has seen a succession of false dawns. Clive Sinclair's C5 was a commercial disaster and his newer A-Bike ...

Honda Motor Co employee demonstrates the company's prototype of new personal mobility device "U3-X" in Tokyo Credit: Photo: REUTERS The sleek and silver U3-X has internal balance control, meaning that ...

Have you ever looked at a Segway and said, "hey that looks cool, but I wish someone would make a version with fewer wheels"? No of course you haven't, no one has, but Honda made it anyway. Last ...

FIRST there was the Sinclair C5, which struggled to find its market. Next came a generation of personal mobility vehicles such as the Segway, perhaps best known for hurling off former US president ...

A self-balancing unicycle experimental vehicle from Honda to be shown at the Tokyo Motor Show next month might just be history in the making. Weighing less than 10kg, the 24 by 12 by 6-inch U3-X ...

TOKYO (AP) – Look, no hands. Scooting about in a unicycle is no sweat with Honda’s new robotics technology. Swaying your body from side to side is all you need to do to turn, rotate full circle and ...

Jalopnik just posted this crazy Honda unicycle, the U3-X, with “omni traction drive.” It’s definitely the first personal mobility device that might help you fulfill your lifelong dream of re-enacting ...

As my cohorts enter their second childhood, more and more of them are finding it difficult to get around strictly on their own two feet. Wheelchairs and scooters are a poor substitute -- expensive, ...

Honda Motor Co has unveiled an electric battery-powered personal transporter, a unicycle shaped like the number eight that riders steer by leaning in the direction they want to travel. The U3-X, which ...