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Technology Review: Blogs: Mims’s Bits: Babies Take the Wheel of Driving Robots

Who knew technology could be this cute? Actually, lots of people, but I digress…

A team from Ithaca College has developed a way for babies with physical disabilities to get around and learn about their environment. It’s a motorized wheelchair, but instead of using a joystick, which is too complicated for little baby hands, all the baby has to do is rrrreeeaaccchh….. and the chair will move in that direction.

Brilliant!

It uses a Wii fit board. Read more…

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