Thursday, April 27, 2006
Robotic Legs Instead of Wheelchairs
"Atsuo Takanishi, an engineering professor at Tokyo's Waseda University, has demonstrated a pair of robotic legs that may one day eliminate the need for wheelchairs. At the demonstration in Tokyo, one of Takanishi's students rode the robot -- which bears some resemblance to the mechanical "Wrong Trousers" of Wallace and Gromit fame -- up and down a staircase and along a pebbly path outdoors. A picture of the demonstration may be found here " Still waiting for my Gundam but that's a good start.
source:http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/26/148233
source:http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/26/148233
# posted by dark master : 4/27/2006 10:36:00 AM
