Self-balancing scooter Ninebot is now working on AI robots that can queue up for you

The original article appeared in Chinese on our sister site TechNode Chinese.

China’s smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi released its latest self-balancing scooter, the Ninebot Plus with an RMB 3499 ($514) price tag on June 28th, two years after launching the Ninebot Mini. For the first time, Ninebot is using radio positioning technology for consumer products, with new remote controls that can be used to enable scooter to follow the user and unlocking. In addition, the user can also fit Xiaomi PTZ camera onto the scooter.

For those of you who not familiar with Ninebot, here’s a refresher: In the spring of 2015, Ninebot officially acquired the self-balancing scooter company Segway, including the U.S. company’s self-balancing vehicle patent and 17 years of research and development experience. This was possible due to its Ninebot’s backer Xiaomi.

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