Not satisfied with the simple electric skateboard? It seems similarto some researchers at Japan’s Shibaura Institute of Record weren’t possibly, and have been busily working upon this so-called “robo-skateboard” for a past small whilst. Like some DIY efforts we’ve seen, this asingle uses a Segway-like resource to let we float it by simply pressing down on a front or back and spin by disposition left or right, although it assumingly tops out during the small six miles per hour. It additionally weighs a whopping 33 pounds, that explains the retractable luggage-like handle for carrying it around, and it’s assumingly been quite the significant investment for a hospital — deliberation which the researchers have been hoping to get the cost down to ¥100,000 (or only over $1,000) by 2013, which is when they goal to move it to marketplace.