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A Wheelchair With Ears and Brain
medgadget.com - 9/21/2008
A Wheelchair With Ears and Brain
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At MIT researchers are working on a self-navigating wheelchair that can learn the geography around it through simple voice commands, and then travel around using the map created within its computer brain. Unlike other attempts to program wheelchairs or other mobile devices, which rely on an ...
Robot wheelchair finds its own way - MIT News Office
web.mit.edu - 9/19/2008
Robot wheelchair finds its own way - MIT News Office
— web.mit.edu — MIT invention responds to user's spoken commands David Chandler, MIT News Office September 19, 2008 MIT researchers... are developing a new kind of autonomous wheelchair that can learn all about the locations in a given building, and then take its ... (more) Robot wheelchair finds its own way - MIT News Office
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Robotic Wheelchair Follows Voice Commands, Navigates Its Own Way
gearlog.com - 9/20/2008
Robotic Wheelchair Follows Voice Commands, Navigates Its Own Way
— gearlog.com — In the near future, an autonomous robotic wheelchair could take its user around the house with just... a single vocal command. (more) Robotic Wheelchair Follows Voice Commands, Navigates Its ...
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Engadget:  MIT developing autonomous wheelchair that listens when you speak

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MIT developing autonomous wheelchair that listens when you speak
Engadget — ... chair could understand phrases of direction, such as "head to the kitchen," and it would take on the burden of navigating the halls while letting the rider chill. The researchers are implementing a system that can learn and adapt to the individual user, and in the future, they'd like to add in a collision-avoidance system and mechanical arms to help patients lift and move objects. Say, can regular joes / janes buy these? We're totally feeling this over the Segway. [Via medGadget]Read | Permalink | Email this ...

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