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Panasonic has developed a robotic bed that transforms into a wheelchair. The bed is designed for people who...

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Panasonic has developed a robotic bed that transforms into a wheelchair. The bed is designed for people who have limited mobility and is intended to provide an extra level of Independence.

Added: 10/12/09

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A Robotic Bed That Transforms Into a Wheelchair

Female: Robotic bed Robotic Bed: Yes, what do you want? Martin: Panasonic has developed a robotic bed that transforms into a wheelchair. The bed response to voice commands, it’s designed for people who have limited mobility and is intended to provide an extra level of independence. Users can instruct it to lower or raise the head or foot of the bed, or to make the complete transformation into a wheelchair. The resulting wheelchair resembles the sort of seat you might see on an aircraft, and is fully robotic itself. A joystick on the right arm can be use to control the wheelchair’s movements. Yukio: it took us a year from the start of development to showing it here today. Martin: Before following each voice command, the wheelchair checks to make sure that the action that it understood is indeed the one that’s desired. In wheelchair mode it can also detect people and obstacles in its ways as it moves about, so the user is safely guided around them. In building the bed, Panasonic sought to fit as much IT into it as possible. Yukio: There’s the robotic canopy and fitted into this is an LCD panel. This is connected to the internet and you can check security cameras or find out what’s going on around the house. You can also use it to watch TV and control household energy systems. So even if you are lying in bed, you can keep in touch with your family in another room. There’s also a video phone. Martin: The wheelchair is capable of automatically docking with the bed, it just needs to be brought close and a button push for the procedure to begin. Panasonic is planning to test the bed in several care home both in Japan and overseas, but there remains a legal obstacle before it can become a product. Safety standards and laws concerning home help robot are yet to be considered in many countries, so until that codified and manufacturer liability is clarified, the bed will likely remain off the market. In Tokyo, this is Martin Williams, IDG News Service.

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Female: Robotic bed
Robotic Bed: Yes, what do you want?
Martin: Panasonic has developed a robotic bed that transforms into a wheelchair. The bed response to voice commands, it’s designed for people who have limited mobility and is intended to provide an extra level of independence. Users can instruct it to lower or raise the head or foot of the bed, or to make the complete transformation into a wheelchair. The resulting wheelchair resembles the sort of seat you might see on an aircraft, and is fully robotic itself. A joystick on the right arm can be use to control the wheelchair’s movements.
Yukio: it took us a year from the start of development to showing it here today.
Martin: Before following each voice command, the wheelchair checks to make sure that the action that it understood is indeed the one that’s desired. In wheelchair mode it can also detect people and obstacles in its ways as it moves about, so the user is safely guided around them. In building the bed, Panasonic sought to fit as much IT into it as possible.
Yukio: There’s the robotic canopy and fitted into this is an LCD panel. This is connected to the internet and you can check security cameras or find out what’s going on around the house. You can also use it to watch TV and control household energy systems. So even if you are lying in bed, you can keep in touch with your family in another room. There’s also a video phone.
Martin: The wheelchair is capable of automatically docking with the bed, it just needs to be brought close and a button push for the procedure to begin. Panasonic is planning to test the bed in several care home both in Japan and overseas, but there remains a legal obstacle before it can become a product. Safety standards and laws concerning home help robot are yet to be considered in many countries, so until that codified and manufacturer liability is clarified, the bed will likely remain off the market. In Tokyo, this is Martin Williams, IDG News Service.

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