WL-16RII Walking Chair

WL-16RII

Now if the Segway guy had come up with this as the next big thing he would have been right.

Waseda University and tmsuk, Japan, are showing off the “WL-16RII” , a new 2 foot robot to assist people in climbing up and down stairways. The robot presented in Fukuoka will go on sale in 2010. In the demonstration “WL-16RII” succeeded in the stairway ascent and descent of height 20 centimeters. Sensors (not on board) inspect the height and width , etc., of the stairway and programs movement beforehand allowing for safe ascent and descent. In the future using RFID chips on stairways, information can be passed to the WL-16RII allowing it to walk freely in town.

Ployer – WL-16RII
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A Real Space Shuttle Concept

CEV

It would be nice to see a reusable space vehicle that is for human use only and leave the heavy lifting to the Delta, Atlas, and Titan rockets. Those will take higher G-loads and carry more mass and into orbit while posing no harm to its crew because there isn’t one.

The Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) is NASA’s proposed series of human spaceflight spacecraft, intended to replace the space shuttle system. The project to develop and test the CEV is Project Constellation

Crew Exploration Vehicle – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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