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Subject: 
Robotic Wheelchair
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Date: 
Thu, 1 Jul 1999 17:30:58 GMT
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Anybody catch the segment last night on the robotic wheelchair.  I think
it was on Dateline.

Watching it climb stairs was impressive, but seeing the chair stand
upright on two of its four wheels while the occupant caught a 25lb sack
of lead, all without the robotic chair even appearing to correct its
balance was amazing.  The inventor must have one fast controller, lots of
accelerometers, and some very fancy code to do that!

Ross M. Tonkens, M.D.
Medical Director
Primary Care of Nevada
100 North Green Valley Parkway
Suite 240
Henderson, NV 89014

702 914-7120  VOICE
702 914-7129  FAX



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  Re: Robotic Wheelchair
 
I did see that! Very impressive, as long as you don't run into an object below the CG while up on two wheels :-). They have probably thought of that already. This is the kind of good work that people in robotics can do. There are other "robots" in (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)

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