IC Tots on Bots - Jackson

Jackson testing our mobile robot system developed to provide mobility to infants with physical disabilities. For more information about this project please visit our website at http://ithaca.edu/hs/depts/cs/facstaff/sstansfield/research/totsOnBots/

Tots on Bots is a collaborative research project through Ithaca College's departments of Computer Science, Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy.

Music: Long Stroll by Kevin MacLeod

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• baby
• robot
• Ithaca
• College
• wii
• balance
• board
• fit

[computergeek3192]

Thumbs up if engadget brought you here!

[frantahouska]

Mobile Pooper FTW! :)

[yamamotoknj]

Creator☆

[yamamotoknj]

Creator! ☆

[Bulldog22031]

Remember in Wall-E all the people in robotic chairs that never got up?...well, here you go

[Bevcrusherfan]

@TwizzWTFisWrong It's for infants with disabilities that make it impossible for them to learn to walk.

Each of the kids using it will always be known as "the kid who never learned to walk... but could move on their own anyways."

[TwizzWTFisWrong]

Later known as "the kid who never learned to walk"...

[VoiTuboUser]

Oh well my comment was a wannabe sarcasm :P

Anyways Love this idea :D

[Slntpsych]

Now that is a throne.

[hqp921]

I was surprised (and not) to see Ithaca College on an Engadget post. Looks like this is a great project! Class of '04 here. Go Bombers! ;)

[jhonyking]

this is the beginning to Wall-E Humans!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MOTat18]

@JimTB Apprently you know nothing of how the human mind works. Teaching involves risk, and with a good reward at the end. Like Stereophobia said, it happens all through life. A person studies for a test, get's a good grade as a reward. You strive for a good job, you get rewarded for it. I can go on and on. To teach a baby, you coax it to do something, and then reward it so it knows that is good behavior. Teasing in this case would be keeping the treat out of reach and never give it to the kid.