…KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) have developed the Hubo FX-1 chair bot. It is basically a chair with legs and can carry a human weighing up to 100 kgs. The person sitting can control the robot easily using the built in joystick.
| This looks pretty useless to me. Someone who needs a wheelchair wouldn’t be able to get into this thing. |
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2 things.
There is a big guy inside of that thing.
If it is real, put armor on the front and use it for crowd control.
#1
It’s for real.
move over segway…..
“This looks pretty useless to me. Someone who needs a wheelchair wouldn’t be able to get into this thing.”
Wow, a marvel of modern science, developed by some of the greatest minds in robot design, and you really think they got this far and went “Hey, how do we get someone in this thing?” The ways to solve your little problem that makes this “useless” are innumerable, so why don’t you give them the credit and acknowledge that this might help some people?
I haven’t noticed such human motion in legs for a long time now.
Now, if they could only afford a longer cord for that thing.
Am I the only person who noticed that the Hubo FX-1 chair bot is broken? The chair starts to move backwards on its own so the kid pulls back on his control so that he can catch up with what the chair was doing.
“This looks pretty useless to me”
Well, yeah. Until you know this is just another step – no pun – to Korea to become a dominant force in robotics.
It’s not a complete product, yet. just wait until it can kneel and allow a disabled person to climb in. Then watch it climb stairs and the kind of obstacle that today are an impediment to disabled people’s movement.
Then you’ll see how that sort of commentary is so premature and so typically American.
Americans have lost the capability to see far in the future. Just look at your once great Space Program…
I guess I should explain myself. I meant that it looks pretty useless as it stands at the moment (pun not intended.) The robotics involved appear to be very good. The movements look very similar to Sony’s ASIMO.
there is already a wheelchair that can climb stairs and go anywhere a “normal” person can go called an iBOT. i’m in a chair and can’t wait to get my iBOT. i tested one a few weeks ago and am no in the proccess of getting one. and the big kicker is that johnson & johnson have found a way to make it 25% less expensive than any other mid-range chair.
the big problem will be how much impact that much weight would have have on a floor surface. 180 pounds for person and 400-500 pounds for machine in less than 1 s.f.. not good for the structure.
http://www.ibotnow.com/
this is the first chair that i’ve looked at and didn’t want to change or custom build something on it to improve it.
Think Transformers!
#4. Yeah, I heard of this thing called a “lift” once …
I have a lift for my wife who is in a wheelchair. I’d hate to have to spring for a lift that goes that high if they even make them.
#9
Asimo is done by Honda.
All Sony can do thanks to it’s lawyers is a whining robot dog.
“This looks pretty useless to me. Someone who needs a wheelchair wouldn’t be able to get into this thing.”
There’s plenty of Homer Simpsons in the world willing to use it though 🙂
…and all this time I’ve been using my legs. Like a sucker.
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Think Popemobile.
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