newlaunches.com - 12/15/2008
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NEC along with Japan's Chiba institute of technology have developed the robotic wheelchair. It makes use of GPS co-ordinates to determine its location and has a sensors attached to its body for avoiding obstacles and to generate a route to move on. It has a special set of wheels which allows it ...
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Omni-Directional Wheelchair Avoids Obstacles
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... This high-tech wheelchair basically "makes use of GPS co-ordinates to determine its location and has a sensors attached to its body for avoiding obstacles and to generate a route to move on." Video after the break.
Not much information is available about the robotic wheelchair for now. But it is a long time before it becomes a reality, and yes, Stephen Hawking has not ordered one yet.
[via Newlaunches]
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