Toyota's newest robot is a Segway-like transportation tool that called the Winglet. Weighing just under 22kg, it's portable and compact and intended to help lazy people get around in airports and supermarkets just by leaning in the direction they want to move in. Call me crazy, but I'd rather be sitting in a motorized wheelchair than standing on this thing which makes you two heads taller than the next person and only goes 4mph. (The Segway is at least 3x faster.)
It will be a lot cooler, I think, when Toyota does what it plans to do next with it, which is to enable it to store shopping info or go back to a battery charging station on its own.
If its low on battery, it can go to the next charged one for the person to switch with before going to the charge station.
Posted by: Dragonfang18 | August 01, 2008 at 03:32 PM