Twendy One helps people with mobility redite

Twendy One is a robot that was created by Waseda University in Tokyo and Professor Shigeki Sugano.
Although it seems quite small in the illustration, it still measure 1.50 meters and weighs 111kg.You might ask what is its purpose? Its mission is to help people with reduced mobility (disabled, elderly people …) at home. Indeed, it can be used to help a person get out of bed, getting up from a chair or out of a wheelchair.

It can even prepare breakfast since, with two hands, it is able to grasp an object as a sandwich, a drink or a plate without exerting too much pressure on this subject which is in contact with the sensors on the robot .

Twendy One is not yet commercially available but it is hoped to see land on the market in 2015. Until then, some small defect in the robot must be paid particular weight too high, its slowness, its autonomy, which is only a quarter of an hour.

This project, which lasts for seven years will cost several million euros, its sale price will be probably very high .