One-Wheeled Wonder

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A character that moves by balancing on one wheel or ball.

There are three subtypes:

Integrated unicycle

A character, usually a robot or Powered Armor, has a wheel at the bottom and a center of mass above the wheel.

Separate unicycle

The character but mounts a vehicle with one wheel.

Wheel is most of body

Center of mass is within the wheel, as if a separate unicycle were autonomous.

It doesn't include characters that move by rolling or spin-dashing.

Examples of One-Wheeled Wonder include:

Film

• WA-7 in Attack of the Clones

Film, Animated

• Officer Shrift in the animated version of The Phantom Tollbooth.
• M-O in WALL-E

Literature

• The aptly named "Wheelers" creatures from the Wizard of Oz series, they have a wheels instead of hands and feet.

Video Games

• Robots in Ball Breakers
• Claptrap in Borderlands
• Gilliam Knight in Mega Man 7
• Maestro Trombot in JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain
• The Mcycle body shape in Cyber Stadium Series: Base Wars
• Medic Robot in Team Fortress 2
• Mettaton in Undertale.
• PDQ-88b securitron in Fallout: New Vegas.
• Roadkill Rodney with the electroshock whip in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game
• Rocket in Rocket: Robot on Wheels
• Robo-Ninja in Robo-Ninja Climb

• Wheelie in Kirby Super Star has the wheel as most of body variant and becomes the vehicle variant when Kirby is riding him.

Western Animation

• The Gizmoduck powered armor worn by Fenton Crackshell in DuckTales and Darkwing Duck
• Solenoid robots in Roger Ramjet

Real Life

• The Robotpark Academy which is the World's Largest Robot Resource has a page about single wheel/ball robots.