December 15, 2008
NEC develops wheelchair for Stephen Hawking
by Dhiram Shah
NEC along with Japan’s Chiba institute of technology have developed the robotic wheelchair. It makes use of GPS co-ordinates to determine its location and has a sensors attached to its body for avoiding obstacles and to generate a route to move on. It has a special set of wheels which allows it to move in all the directions. Not much information is available about the robotic wheelchair for now. But it is a long time before it becomes a reality, and yes, Stephen Hawking has not ordered one yet.
(One more video and a few images after the jump)