This reminds me considerably of the "Pole Balancing Problem"[1] which was tackled by neural networks for a long time. It's since been solved by them. Seeing a r

This reminds me considerably of the "Pole Balancing Problem"[1] which was tackled by neural networks for a long time. It's since been solved by them. Seeing a real-world version of that problem is pretty cool, though. [1] The pole-balancing problem isn't exactly like this problem. A single pole is balanced, rather than two; and even in the double-pole balancing problem, the two poles both rise from the base, not one pole atop the other. That should be a minor variation to it.