section_path: Control robotics areas/Locomotion/Rolling robots/Two-wheeled balancing robots
section_name: Two-wheeled balancing robots
paragraph_text: Two-wheeled balancing robots
  
  Balancing robots generally use a gyroscope to detect how much a robot is falling and then drive the wheels proportionally in the same direction, to counterbalance the fall at hundreds of times per second, based on the dynamics of an inverted pendulum. Many different balancing robots have been designed. While the Segway is not commonly thought of as a robot, it can be thought of as a component of a robot, when used as such Segway refer to them as RMP (Robotic Mobility Platform). An example of this use has been as NASA 's Robonaut that has been mounted on a Segway.