gearlog.com - 9/20/2008
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In the near future, an autonomous robotic wheelchair could take its user around the house with just a single vocal command.
web.mit.edu - 9/19/2008
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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 ...
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Robot wheelchair finds its own way - MIT News Office
medgadget.com - 9/21/2008
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medgadget.com —
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 ...
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A Wheelchair With Ears and Brain
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Robotic Wheelchair learns about environment and takes voice commands
Gizmo Watch —
... system enables the wheelchair’s location map, which is then stored on to its memory.
Watch This: Technology has always been progressive. The Robotic Wheelchair is a significant development in the design of autonomous robots that make our lives easier. The vocal command navigation abilities of this wheelchair opens up avenues to a promising future.
Designers: MIT researchers Nicholas Roy and Seth Teller
Source:Gearlog , MIT
Smart Voice command based Wheelchair
Fashionfunky.com —
... is taken on a tour of the house and each room / landmark is identified for it and cross references with a command. A special system helps it to create a map of the house. This would allow it to know where it is and how to get to the destination. One of the further developments planned for the chair is mechanical arms that could be used to pick up and move objects. After the preliminary tests on MIT campus were through, the wheelchair is now on a trial run in a nursing home.
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