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(Video) WL-16RIII Walkbot

Posted March 07, 2007 10:32 AM

From TechEBlog:

We have seen the future and it's the WL-16RIII Walkbot — developed at Waseda University in Japan. Designed for the disabled, elderly, or just plain lazy, the Walkbot makes descending a flight of stairs much easier — though it doesn't look very safe. It's powered by a 850-Mhz Intel Pentium 3 processor and has two joysticks to control movement.

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Re: (Video) WL-16RIII Walkbot

03/08/2007 10:20 AM

Very interesting! But it is a long, long way from being viable.

Any time you see a "robot", (which this not!) tethered by wires to to a remote power supply or computer, you are looking at a "Concept". There are over 150 "walkers" currently in some form of development.

If I had a lot of money I would like to mess around and try to build one myself.

It seems that the toy manufactures are ahead of everyone else when it comes to building "robots".

As a mater of fact, there are toys that fit the definition of a robot better than most big dollar/yen/lira/peso efforts.

But we need to keep trying.
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