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by bitwize 44 days ago
Remember the Segway?

Its predecessor was a stair-climbing wheelchair: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBOT

One of the codenames for Segway was "Ginger", a reference to Ginger Rogers, because the codename for iBOT was "Fred Upstairs" (a pun on Fred Astaire).