Gizmodo: robotic chair

Todder-Sized Robotic Chairs Help Kids With Disabilities Get Around

Jason Chen — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:00:00 EDT

When a one-year-old has difficulty with movement, it impairs brain development, since researchers say babies form neural connections through exploration of their environment. How do you get around this? With a bad-ass robotic chair.

Physical therapists and mechanical engineers joined forces to create robots that allow babies with disabilities to move around. The robots controlled by a joystick that's simple enough for a one year old to use.

The chair is unlike a regular adult motorized chair, since it has sensors and a remote control feature that's usable by parents to help kids ride around. All in all, pretty awesome. [Vodpod via ABClocal]

RFID Robotic Chair Follows You Around For Constant Seating

Jason Chen — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:00:00 EDT

Dutch designer Jelte van Geest's RFID-enabled robotic chair is for Openbare Bibliotheek Endhoven, and it's fantastic. What you do is swipe your RFID-enabled library card in front of the chair's sensor, which then follows you (or your card) around the library so you always have somewhere to sit. Once you cross a line near the checkout counter, the chair returns back to its docking station to re-juice and get ready for the next guy's ass. The video after the jump illustrates how it works. [Momeld via Technabob via DVICE]

We'd totally want one of these around the house until we realized that most of our day is spent sitting on something or other anyway, so this robot would just spin around getting jealous before pitifully running out of power.

Transformer Chair Puts Megatron to Shame

Louis Ramirez — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:11:26 EDT

We've seen some weird robots before, but this one hits an 8 on the freak factor scale. Created by Raffaello D'Andrea and Max Dean, the Transformer chair looks like your grandmother's ordinary kitchen chair, but say the magic words and it collapses itself and then transforms itself back into a chair. Don't believe us? Check out the video after the jump. – Louis Ramirez

Cornell Robotic Chair [via CNET Crave]