Robot can raise immobile from bed
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His touch is gentle and flexible, because it has 241 sensor in the hands …
Snow-white robot can lift a man out of bed and up a conversation with him, prepare his breakfast. Those scientists in Tokyo presented Twendy One, successor robot Wendy. The latest robot has a soft hand and gentle touch and enough power to help the man stand up and sit down.
- Twendy One preparing food, but nothing was broken. His touch is gentle and flexible, and that we have achieved by placing the 241 sensors in his hands – said Sugano Shigeki, professor of mechanical engineering at the University Vaseda, who led the project.
Robot is a high bit less than 1.5 meters and weighs about 111 kilograms. It has long arms, and they have worked on him seven years. During that period they spent several million dollars.
Sugano hopes that such a robot could in the future to help disabled and immovable. Price would be around 200,000$ . But for now it even more perfect. Robot is, in fact, quickly heating and his battery lasts 15 minutes.
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