| Title:
| Robot wheelchair finds its own way: MIT invention responds to user's spoken commands
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| Description:
| MIT researchers are developing a new kind of autonomous wheelchair that can learn all about the locations in a given building, and then take its occupant to a given place in response to a verbal command. ... After months of preliminary tests on campus, they have begun trials in a real nursing home environment with real patients, at the Boston Home in Dorchester, a facility where all of the nearly 100 patients have partial or substantial loss of muscle control and use wheelchairs.
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| Author:
| David Chandler
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| Orig. Date:
| September 19, 2008
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| Source:
| MIT news
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| Subject:
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| Contributor:
| Bruce Buchanan
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| Comments:
| A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on September 24, 2008 (download PDF: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/techtalk53-3.pdf)
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| Type:
| Text
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| Language:
| English
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| Format:
| html
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| Last Edit:
| Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:23:48 -0700
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