Japan is always ahead in technology innovation. One of the new creation of one of the scientists in the “Sakura country” is a “flying chair” like in futuristic movies.
Tsunesuke Furuta, designers of this tool from Kobe Gakuin University says that these unique chairs made especially for the elderly or those who have a problem with the event moving.
This is also as an alternative way for those who are bored in a wheelchair and has a desire to try something new that has high technology.
Quoted from Tg Daily, Tuesday (2/3/2010), this “flying chair” is capable occupied by the user who weigh up to 330 pounds or about 150 kg. Ability of movement said to be stable, either walk backwards or forward, on the ground.
Even so, this magical chair can not be too high to float above the ground. In fact, only a few inches from the surface.
In a demo held at the Robot Fair in Osaka, Japan, flying chairs attract enough visitors. Occupied by an elderly, this chair moves floating exhibition space.
Only the rider seat still looks stiff to operate so that it still must be helped to move.
| Title | : | Flying chairs for elderly people |
| Category | : | Robotics News. |
| Tags | : | Flying chairs, technology innovation, Tsunesuke Furuta, |
The word robotics was derived from the word robot, which was introduced to the public by Czech writer Karel Čapek in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), which premiered in 1921.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word robotics was first used in print by Isaac Asimov, in his science fiction short story "Liar!", published in May 1941 in Astounding Science Fiction. Asimov was unaware that he was coining the term; since the science and technology of electrical devices is electronics, he assumed robotics already referred to the science and technology of robots. In some of Asimov's other works, he states that the first use of the word robotics was in his short story Runaround (Astounding Science Fiction, March 1942). However, the word robotics appears in "Liar!"
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