Meet BALLU, UCLA's Humanoid Blimp RobotThe 2016 IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots kicks off today. It’s taking place at the Westin Resort & Spa Cancun, which sounds awful , but at least there are some cool new robots, and one of the coolest has to be BALLU, from Dennis Hong at UCLA’s Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa) . BALLU, or Buoyancy Assisted Lightweight Legged Unit (Professor Hong loves a good acronym), is a
