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Toyota i-foot Robot Saturday, October 14, 2006 - Iddo Genuth Home >> Picture Of The Day >> Robots   
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| Toyota i-foot – is an over 7 ft., two-legged, walking, mountable robot developed for three-dimensional mobility, with the ability to navigate staircases. The passenger climbs on, straps in, and drives it with a joystick. | ||||||||||
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The i-foot is meant to carry a disabled person up or down the stairs and facilitates mounting and dismounting by bending backwards at the knees to lower the egg-shaped seat close to the floor. At present, however, this prototypic robot is limited to a carrying capacity of only 60 kg (132 lbs.) and a travel speed of 1.35 km/h (0.84 mph). More information on the i-foot on the Toyota i-foot webpage. |
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| What year was it invented? I'm doing a project on it. | |||
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| The idea was presented to Toyota in 2005! |
