Disability Technology & News

Uber Lazy-[wheel]chair

Ok so here is another article from a Japanese news site, translated with the assistance of Bablefish. This technological marvel is the uber lazy-boy-wheelchair that does pretty much everything but climb stairs (not yet at least). The crith can remotely control all house-hold appliances via ‘muscle electricity’. If a home is wired with the latest wireless, sensory, and intelligence system then conceivable they can control every aspect of their home via the Crith; very beneficial if you’re out on the town and want to turn on/off appliances bio-remotely. Hm-mm I guess wouldn’t have to worry whether I remembered to turn off the stove or light before I left my apt.

Wheelchair type welfare robot development
7/6/05

Hiroshima large and utilization after the ドコモ 2 year you aim

The wheelchair type robot “crith” which can operate the home appliance remotely the feeble electric information which the occasion where it tries probably to move the muscle occurs in the body (muscle electricity) via was developed, the Hiroshima large graduate school engineering postgraduate course (Higashi Hiroshima city) with NTT ドコモ China (the Hiroshima city Ku) and the like. Expectation is high as the welfare type robot which supports the life of the people whose remote control operation is difficult with obstacle and advanced age in the future, assures cost reduction and aims toward the utilization of two years later.

The movement of the muscle of the person who sits down in the wheelchair is perceived with the sensor, e.g., the crith pushes down the wrist and/or bends on left and right cursor of the personal computer picture which is installed in the wheelchair moves. The picture of the volume control and channel modification etc. is chosen, the selective button which is desired with the movement such that the fist is made can be clicked.

Even when going out of the family in order to be able to verify safety and to be able to communicate urgently, if NTT ドコモ Chinese communication technology is utilized and the radio card is inserted in the personal computer, in order also receiving dispatching of the portable telephone for it to be possible even, it did.

The identification of the muscle electricity which is personal equation was obstacle, but it had the function which studies the pattern of muscle electricity automatically in every person who is used, made easy to mass-produce. The cheek and the eyelid be able to measure the muscle electricity of any region of every body, you say that it can correspond to the various home appliance products.

As for topic the price where also 2,000,000 Yen are required at system set. Whether it is reduced to 500,000 Yen by mass production, we grasp the key of utilization, we search the home appliance manufacturer which corresponds.

As for the home appliance control control equipment “bio remote” which is core technology large focusing on of the Hiroshima, NTT ドコモ China, the macro data (Higashi Hiroshima city) the pursuit hill electronic equipment (Hiroshima prefecture Kannabe Cho) the industrial technology research institute (Tokyo) development last summer with industry-university-government cooperation. You completed the crith in the May this year, the Aichi international exposition which is in the midst of holding in Aichi prefecture (love terrestrial Hiroshi) with you announced for the first time with the robot spreading/displaying which to the middle of June is.

柴 building next assistant professor of the same postgraduate course “would like to utilize quickly as the robot which is useful to the grave handicapped person and the senior citizen,”, you say.

http://www.chugoku-np.co.jp

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