Japanese Nurse Robot Twendy-One

clipped from www.medgadget.com Would You Trust Your Patients to Twendy-One? PTC (The Product Development Company® of Needham, Massachusetts) is reporting that one of its software products has been selected by Waseda University's Sugano Laboratory as "the main engineering tool for the development of a human-symbiotic robot." clipped from twendyone.com HISTORY WENDY (Waseda Engineering Designed sYmbiont) TWENDY-ONE is an advanced version of the WENDY robot (Waseda Engineering Designed　sYmbiont) which was developed in 1999 in Sugano Laboratory, Egg breaking clipped from twendyone.com CONCEPT TWENDY-ONE When TWENDY-ONE manipulates an object with various shape, it is easy for TWENDY-ONE to adapt to the object by passivity to absorb external force generated by the positioning deviation. In the same way, TWENDY-ONE can adapt to human motion and hold a human. As a result, TWENDY-ONE can manipulate an object dexterously as well as support a human. clipped from twendyone.com DEMO clipped from www.youtube.com

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